If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

 Good morning. Jesus just told His disciples to not let their hearts be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many dwelling places. The king James says mansions, but that is not a good translation. That does not mean that they are buildings; though they could be. We won’t need any physical dwelling places, since we won’t have a physical body. It does say that they are many of them. Perhaps it is our resurrected bodies - they would indeed be mansions. As an interesting side note, the Greek word for house is spelled “oikos”. That is the name of one of the Greek yogurts. The name not only can mean house, but it can also mean family. Back to Jesus – if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. That should have been comforting to them; but again they were thinking in the natural - that Jesus was leaving them without any help or hope. And you know the way where I’m going. And of course the disciples are confused. Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way? Then we have one of the most definitive verses in the Bible. I am the way, the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. (in fact in Acts, Christianity was even referred to as the Way). Of course today people say that there are many ways to God; and they get downright nasty if you disagree with them. But Jesus affirms that the only way to get to God is through Himself. Father thank You that Jesus is the way to You, and we have found that way. Help all of our family to find that way also.

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