Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
(Acts 13:26-33; John 14:1-6)
Before the disciples were called Christians, they were known
as members of the Way. It is no mysterious
title as Jesus calls himself “the way” in today’s gospel.
The way refers to the kind of life one must lead to be saved
from the continual strife of this world.
Its fullness comes in the afterlife which many Jews in Jesus’ time believed
existed. The way conforms to faith in
Jesus as God’s emissary and Son. Faith,
however, is always more than saying the right words. It is sacrificing oneself in love for God and
one’s neighbor.
Such love is costly.
One writer called it “a harsh and dreadful thing.” Yet we should not doubt that following the way
is worth any difficulty we endure.
