Do you belong to the Way?

Acts 9:1-2 1Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

In the early days of the apostles’ witnessing after the day of the Pentecost, people referred to believers as belonging to the Way, and referred to Christianity as the Way… I am not sure who started this name association, but it is interesting to me that they called it the Way.

Talking about the way; the way is not the destination, it is the path to the destination. We belong to the way to walk in it, so that we can get to the destination. Coming to Christ is not the end, it is the means to getting to the desired end. John 3:16 said, for God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life! Also, in John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life….”

Coming to Christ is the beginning of a journey. The journey starts with Christ, and ends with Christ. It takes you the rest of your life to walk in that way, because it is in that way that you find the real truth. It is when you have found the real truth and you begin to walk in that truth that you will be set free from this present world. At the end of the journey of your life walking in that truth, you will find life. Obviously, the life being referred to is not the existence that you have today, because you already have that one, and why would we need to look for what we already have? The life you will find at the end of your life’s walk in the Way is the Eternal life promised in John 3:16 and confirmed by Jesus in John 14:6. So I ask you; do you belong to the Way? If you do, that’s just a start. You have keep walking in the Way, that is when you will find truth and proceed to finding eternal life!