DCLM Daily Manna 5 June 2026: Appreciating His Fullness
KEY VERSE: “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.” – (JOHN 14:7).
TEXT: JOHN 14:5-11
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
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E. Stanley Jones, an American Methodist missionary whom Time Magazine called the world’s greatest Christian missionary in 1938, shared the following account of a missionary who lost his way in an African jungle: He could find no landmarks, and the trail vanished. Eventually, stumbling on a small hut, he asked the native living there if he could lead him out. The native nodded. Rising to his feet, he walked directly into the bush. The missionary followed on his heels. For more than an hour, they hacked their way through a dense wall of vines and grasses. The missionary became worried: “Are you sure this is the way? I don’t see any path.” The African chuckled and said over his shoulder, “Bwana, in this place, there is no path. I am the path.”
How this resonates with the assertion of Christ in response to Thomas’ bewildering question: “…how can we know the way?” Beyond expectation, Christ laid bare the tripod on which the journey to heaven rests. The first is the Way. Jesus said: I am the Way…” His Name is the only one that opens the pearly gate for pilgrims in heaven. Peter sums it up thus: “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The lesson is that there is no other way, creed, religion, or esoteric philosophy. The way to heaven is Christ alone. Through faith in His substitutionary death on the cross and subsequent resurrection, we receive salvation.
Jesus is the Truth. He alone reveals the Father. He is the only dependable source of redemptive revelation. The Truth draws us to the Father and leads us into adoption in His family. He sanctifies, guides, and makes us free. Jesus also is the Life. He is the source and giver of life. Jesus is the light of life who came to give life and to give it more abundantly.
When we come to know Christ in His fullness, our feet are planted on the highway to heaven, we are free and saved from errors and we have life in abundance. The onus is on the believer to help others who are still searching for the Way, and lead them to Jesus. By so doing, they too will share from the abundant life in Christ.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Christ is the only Way to heaven; all other paths are detours to doom.
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DCLM Daily Manna 5 June 2026
