Jesus the Way: From Loneliness to Belonging

I am going and I'm coming back and I'll lead you to where I need you to go. Right? But we don't know where you're going. How can we know the way? How are we supposed to do this, God? How are we supposed to do this? Jesus answers, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. If you know me, you'll know my father. And from now on, you do know him and you've seen him. [00:41:15] (23 seconds)  #JesusIsTheWay

They're like like Jesus says, I'm gonna leave you and they're like, but where are you going? Well, what's happening? Where are you going? Why can't we come? Like, we've followed you for three years. We were out on the water with you. We've been up the mountain. We've done all the things. What do you mean we can't come? And Jesus says, don't let your heart be troubled. Trust in God. Trust also in me. In my father's house, there's many rooms. If that were not so, I would I have told you that I'm going there to prepare a place for you? [00:39:27] (27 seconds)  #TrustInHisPromise

Our responsibility therefore is to do the hard work on ourselves first. To do the hard work to become part of our community. To do the hard work of living in peace, living with trust, living in these ways. It's an idea of realigning ourselves to the community God has called us to. We respond to what he has done. We live with the responsibility of taking responsibility for our own lives and our own actions, and we realign ourselves with that. [00:45:44] (35 seconds)  #RealignToCommunity

We want to do something about this loneliness epidemic. We want to feel like we belong in our own lives. We want we crave it like my dog, like all of creation. We are designed to work better together. Our responsibility therefore is to do the hard work on ourselves first. To do the hard work to become part of our community. To do the hard work of living in peace, living with trust, living in these ways. [00:45:23] (38 seconds)  #DesignedForBelonging

So it's so much bigger than that. And be real, these disciples that Jesus is talking to, they put this to the test. Right? Philip, Peter, Thomas, all of whom show up there in chapter 14 were all martyred for their faith. So when they actually had to walk this out and live this out, it was not just to push down the bad, smile through the good. It was a true deep hard work of living in peace and trust. [00:43:29] (29 seconds)  #FaithThatEndures

I wanna know this is not just a spirit like, I don't know if you know the term spiritual bypassing, but that's an idea of where we just push the bad down and bring the smile up. Right? Bad things happen, and we push it down and say, but I know Jesus goes before me. Right? We don't wanna this is so much deeper than this. The idea that we can walk in trust, that we can walk in peace, that we can walk in contentment and humility, that it being okay with, I have gone before you and I am the way. [00:42:56] (33 seconds)  #NoSpiritualBypassing

And what we always are watching for is for the person who's the mentally strongest, not the best survivalist, the person we think is gonna make it. Because as you watch it, very rarely do they give up because they run out of food or they get hurt, but they all of a sudden just are so lonely. And these are people who've trained for this and within forty eight hours sometimes they're calling out because they they can't stand being alone in the wilderness, in the vastness of being all by themselves. We are not meant to walk through this world alone. [00:33:54] (33 seconds)  #NotMeantToBeAlone

I'm not sure if you can identify with this feeling, but this idea of being surrounded by people, but feeling utterly alone. Right? Maybe we've all been in those situations where you go somewhere and, you know, you're sitting there and you just have this, like, these are not my people. And everyone around you is they know each other and they're laughing and you're just kind of sitting there going like, where's the door? I don't want to be here anymore. I this is not where I belong. Right? [00:31:40] (31 seconds)  #AloneInACrowd