One Way

November 12

There are myriad paths to destruction, but there is only one way to Heaven and that one way is Jesus. We have all heard of the fervency of the religious pilgrim who is willing to crawl on his knees to the shrine of one of his many ‘gods,’ dragging his forehead along the ground to reach the object of his worship.

We know too well of the zealot who is willing to strap explosives to his body in order to kill and maim those unfortunate, innocent individuals whose beliefs do not embrace his own. We know of the sacrifice of the children of animists to their false gods.

We stand aghast at the demonic ideas that misguided souls are willing to impose upon those who do not share their belief system, that require the shedding of blood—their own and that of others. To live, someone must bleed and die. In just one belief system is it God who dies so man may live. Only JESUS’ blood can cover our sin.

Our Triune God spoke of the infallibility of His plan in Isaiah 45:18-19, where He said, “I am the Lord and there is no other…I, the Lord, speak truthfully. I say what is right.” No other plan works. No other god saves. Only that plan set forth in the Throne Room of Heaven of “…the Lamb slain from the foundation of the earth,” Revelation 13:8, can satisfy the Lord’s just requirement for sin.