Shown the Way

Psalm 46:1-3,7 "God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, and the mountains quake with their surging... The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress."
-There is something that has to be realized about humans: we're weak and we are frail creatures. Though we try to combine our man-power to make huge buildings, even redirect rivers, when it comes to personal struggles and tragedies, failures and mistakes, we can't keep our heads above water. I don't know why, but we as humans tend to think we're strong enough that we can last without help. That is futile and that folly will kill us. When God created us, He made us a thing that yearns for more, yearns for help and yearns for peace. Before The Fall, we had that; before sin was rampant, we had all those things. But because sin in its essence is the seperation from God, and we aren't in that perfect union with Him, we have to come to a conclusion: We are unable to do it on our own, we have that built in need for a helper that we are unable to truly without. This isn't to say that we're unable to survive in the wilerness or something to that extent, I'm talking about the hard stuff: the loss of a loved one (or many in a short period of time), being diagnosed with a terminal illness, the lack of purpose in life and just going through the motions, and last but not least, no peace. Not world peace, but the kind of peace that is in the midst of a storm. The kind of peace that even though your entire world is crumbling around you, that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has everything under control even though you cannot see past the end of your nose. It's the "walking by faith" feeling. And not blind faith, in the least. It's the kind of faith that tells you, even though you have no clue, but God does and you will follow Him even though you cannot see.
-We humans, if we don't have a leader who knows the way, are lost in ourselves. And indeed no one man knows the way, correct? That is, at least unless we are given help and are directed in the right direction. And indeed, we have been shown the way. That was Jesus who came and showed us the way. he knew that because of the sin we've committed in our lives and being seperated from God. He knew that our little finite minds could never know the way to eternal life with the King. After all, the leading religious leaders at the time thought it was all about the appearance of the man and not the heart of the man. If your heart belongs in the hands of the King and has been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb, then and only then, will you have eternal life with the King. Jesus came to show the Way. And there is only one way to the King: through Jesus Christ. "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6) Why else would Jesus make such a radical claim unless He we telling the truth and we really do need to be shown the way. And shouldn't we be grateful? We were so lost in our own way that we didn't even know we were lost! Convinced that we weren't lost, we were burning down a trail of destruction. The sort of destruction that kills the heart and rids the life of joy. The sort of trail that eliminates hope in our heart and we can't imagine what peace even feels like.
-And so, rather than watching His children perish in their own sin, Jesus came down to become the sin for us and put to death the record of our mistakes and to set us free. And what do we have to do on our part? The easy stuff. All we have to do is give our lives over to the King who died for us to show us the Way, Truth and Life. The one who showed up there's more to life than that lived for self. To show us that there truly is peace to be found. Though we were lost in our own ways, Christ stepped down our of heaven to show us the way. He traded His limitless reach for the limited reach of an arm. He traded instant travel to anywhere, to being limited to how far legs can carry Him. Through His life here on earth and his resurrection, He showed us that death is not the end, but merely just the beginning of true living.