Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
As a techno babe, friends call me when they have issues with their iPhones. The latest call came after my neighbor purchased the new iPhone 8. She is techno-challenged and I tease her that she has the most expensive paper weight because she uses it for so few things. But the main thing she needed was access to her second email account. This is not a difficult problem to solve and I was sure we could get it done quickly. But the first thing you need is your Apple password.
There are many ways to store passwords. Depending on your sophistication, it can be an app or a piece of paper. She had the paper. No matter how many different ways we entered the password as written, we kept getting the error message and to reset it was going to be very complicated. Our time and patience wore out so we decided to try another day.
I stopped by this week to try again and she mentioned that she had talked to her daughter to check on that password. The one we had been trying was correct except that it was supposed to have a # at the end. That single character had stopped us from accomplishing our goal but when added, it was a piece of cake.
Access to eternal life is much like that single missing character because without Christ, the error message pops up over and over. I read posts on social media that offer many ways to success, happiness, or fame. Usually, it is done by working harder, spending more money, or expending more time to attain the goal.
However, none of that will be the key to eternal life. Christ did it all, giving his very life so that we can spend eternity with Him. Some might think that belief is just too easy. But, what He really wants is for us to give up trying to do it all and accept His gift of life through grace. That missing character is the cross, ✝.
If you have any questions about this offer of life, feel free to email me and we’ll chat.