by Karla Perry

Created on: May 04, 2009   Last Updated: March 01, 2011

Man was created to live in a vibrant relationship with God. When we live apart from that reality we live in a habitat not conducive to our fullness of life. True salvation can only come from one source for it is only one source that brings true life. Our life force is sapped dry by separation from God and we can only find the eternal life in which we were designed to live from God.

When Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life," he was making an incredible declaration. He is not only the source of life, He is life itself. Moreover, He is the way to Himself and the Truth. Salvation is not given by Him. Salvation is Him. He is the life we need and when we come to Him through Him He communions with us making us one with Him as He is one with the Father. Thus salvation comes only from Him who is the Savior. It cannot be separated from Him, for it is His identity.

Jesus stunningly stated that, "before Abraham was, I am." He was on the verge of being stoned for saying such an incredible statement. He was not only uttering the name of the Lord God given to Moses thousands of years past, but He was uttering it as His own name. The magnitude of this choice of words was not lost on the crowd as those who did not receive him, picked up stones to levy upon him.

People often want to believe that salvation could come from a variety of sources or a diversity of paths, but in reality we desire that because we do not trust in the goodness of God. We think that surely there must be other ways, because a good God would not want any to perish. We don't trust His ways as being good. We think we might have a better way and we cheapen the Gospel to accommodate when in reality we create a situation that keeps people from the life of Christ instead of bringing them to Him.

It is quiet true that God would not want any to perish; this is precisely why He sent His Son to take all the sin and corruption of this world upon Himself thereby redeeming the life of all creation. The Son of God, who knew no sin, took on our sin and died for our sin so we can have life everlasting. Jesus said He came to the world, not to condemn the world, but to give anyone who desires eternal life. Every tribe, tongue, and nation has the same way to the Father.

Reports are coming out of the Middle East presently of Muslims having dreams and visions of the risen Lord giving their lives to Jesus without ever meeting a missionary or reading a Bible. Whole communities of believers are forming in the midst

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