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In church today, God brought these verses to my attention in a very elementary way. I didn’t grow up in a Christian home, and came to know Christ as a sophomore in high school. And even then, there were so many phrases, and verses that I’d heard enough in my life time to find them cliché, or to think that they’d lost their meaning. And verse 6 (John 4) is another one of those verses that just kind of bored me. I’d heard it a dozen times, and never really understood what it meant. “I am the way the truth and the life.” Jesus had said. Over and over again I’d heard this verse, but never thought much of it because it seemed over used. But I found out that I just needed to read some context around the verse to understand it better. The verse that changed my mind opinion was back at verse 4. Jesus is comforting his disciples and tells them “You know the way to the place where I am going.” Of course, the disciples didn’t know what he was talking about. How often do we wonder where it is that God wants us to go in our lives? I’m sure at one time or another we’ve all felt like the disciples, wondering “God, if you’d just tell me the way you want me to go, I’ll go!” But we’re disappointed when God doesn’t flat out tell us, and this is because we, as believers, already know where to go! Because, we know Jesus. And Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. So by knowing Jesus, and having a relationship with him (that’s the important part!), we know the way to where he has gone. (aka, heaven, right?) Anyways, God just really caught my attention with these verses today. And I thought it was important to take more meaning out of the more cliché verses of the bible that tend to lose meaning after too much use. Not that it’s a bad thing for a verse to be well known, we just need to understand it’s context and its meaning.