Psalm 16:11 (NIV) You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Matthew 7:14 (NIV) But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Luke 5:31 (NIV) Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick.
John 14:6 (NIV) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Every person has a terminal illness called sin. The reason that followers of Jesus cling to him so tightly is because he is a great Physician who has the only cure. We could try to scrub away our sins with good deeds. Friends, it will not work. We can sincerely think that there are other ways of dealing with it, but we would be sincerely wrong. —Lee Strobel, "Are There Many Paths to God?"
Today's Best Illustrations – Volume 5, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "WAY".
