One Way: Jesus

When I see a one-way sign at a street intersection, I’m faced with a simple choice. I can go the right way or the wrong way. The choice has consequences—for me and potentially for others.

Choosing the right direction reflects not only obedience to the law, but plain common sense.

Yet I often see one-way signs plastered with stickers and graffiti, so cluttered that the message is nearly obscured. I find myself wondering who is trying to cover up the truth.

At first, it’s easy to assume it’s simply the world—those trying to blur the lines between right and wrong, truth and falsehood. But then I realize something more troubling.

It happens in the church too.

Jesus didn’t leave room for ambiguity. He didn’t offer multiple routes or alternate interpretations. He said He is the way.

Jesus is the One Way.

Following His way isn’t just obedience—it’s wisdom. It’s spiritual common sense. And yet, many contemporary Christians seem compelled to add their own stickers and graffiti to the sign. Extra requirements. Extra conditions. Extra distortions.

Why?

Who is behind this subtle—and sometimes not-so-subtle—blurring of the line between the right way and the wrong way?

I’ll leave that as a rhetorical question.

The right answer is obvious.

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"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'" John 14:6 (NKJV)