Life, of faith

The way by which believers journey through this world and into the life to come. Jesus Christ himself is the way to life.

Life seen as travelling with God

Walking with God

Genesis 17:1 See also Genesis 5:22, Genesis 5:24, Genesis 6:9, Genesis 48:15; Psalm 56:13, Psalm 89:15; Micah 4:5; Zechariah 10:12

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Journeying from the old to the new

Isaiah 43:19 See also Exodus 18:8; Isaiah 40:3–5; Micah 2:13

Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

God's guidance along the way

Exodus 13:21 See also Exodus 23:20; Deuteronomy 1:32–33, Deuteronomy 8:2; Nehemiah 9:12, Nehemiah 9:19; Psalm 25:9; Jeremiah 2:17; Galatians 5:25

And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

God's ways

Walking in God's way

Isaiah 35:8; 1 John 2:6 See also Genesis 18:19; Exodus 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:12–13, Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 28:9; Joshua 22:5; Job 23:10–12; Psalm 1:1–2, Psalm 18:30; 2 Timothy 3:10

And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it — only those who walk in the Way — and fools will not stray onto it.

Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.

God teaches believers his way

Isaiah 48:17 See also 1 Samuel 12:23; 1 Kings 8:35–36 parallel 2 Chronicles 6:26–27; Psalm 25:8–9, Psalm 25:12, Psalm 86:11, Psalm 119:30; Proverbs 6:23; Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 30:20–21PSA Isaiah 16:11, Psalm 23:2; Proverbs 8:20; Jeremiah 6:16; Micah 6:8; Galatians 5:22–23

Thus says the LORD your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God, who teaches you for your benefit, who directs you in the way you should go.

Sinners refuse to follow God's way

Isaiah 53:6 See also Isaiah 56:11; Acts 14:16; 2 Peter 2:15

We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.

All other routes end in death

Proverbs 14:12 See also Deuteronomy 11:28, Deuteronomy 31:29; Judges 2:17; 2 Kings 21:22; Psalm 1:6; Proverbs 15:10, Proverbs 16:25

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

Those who travel God's way are blessed

Proverbs 4:18 See also Deuteronomy 5:33; 1 Kings 8:23; Proverbs 11:5; Isaiah 26:7–8; Matthew 5:3–12

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Jesus Christ is the way to life

John 14:6; Colossians 2:3 See also John 8:12; Hebrews 12:2ACT Hebrews 9:2, Acts 19:9, Acts 19:23, Acts 22:4, Acts 24:14, Acts 24:22

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Entrance to the way to life

Entrance is restricted

Matthew 7:13–14 See also John 10:9, John 14:6

Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Entrance is by faith

Hebrews 11:8–10 See also John 3:15–16; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11:13–16

By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.