First: Jesus embodies the way to God.
2ndly: Jesus reveals the truth of God.
Thirdly, Jesus provides life with God.
Few people enjoy feeling lost. When traveling how do you feel when you are lost? When lost, most of us feel stressed and anxious as we seek to get our bearings and determine the right path forward. These feelings are often enhanced when we think we were on the right path and then, suddenly, nothing looks familiar, and the path is no longer clear. When this happens we may not know what to do, what to think, or even how to pray. How then do we get back on track?
Some people fear getting lost and won’t venture out by themselves. God calls us to go, but we are assured that we never go alone and you can have peace because He goes before you.
14 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[a] believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?[b] 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
In the last few days of Jesus’s life, it is not surprising that the disciples felt lost. Although Jesus had already spoken about His pending death (John 12:1-8 John 12:30-36) they thought all things were fine if they stayed away from those in Jerusalem who wanted to kill Jesus.
As before, this teaching had the disciples feeling confused, anxious, and even lost. Jesus had been their guide and they had followed Him with their whole hearts. They did not understand everything. Thus, when we read scripture can’t follow it or have trouble understanding it we need to slow down and follow Jesus through it.
In response to these feelings Jesus did a couple of things.
First: Jesus comforted them. They did not need to have “troubled hearts” nor did they fear. (V27). Instead, if they trusted (believed) in God, they could trust in Jesus. Jesus knows what He is doing just as does God, and so, they can trust instead of feeling stressed and anxious. Though the disciples found little in these words, we know that we certainly can.
The disciples could trust that Jesus’s departure was for a reason. With his death, Jesus was going ahead of them to prepare a place for them in his father’s house. (14:2.) While, it is not certain what kind of place Jesus was referring to here, what is certain is the nature of it. Because Jesus was going to prepare it, the rooms in this house will be a fitting place for Jesus disciples and it is a place where both Jesus and the Father would be clearly present. in essence, all of Jesus, followers, including ourselves, will be with both Jesus and the father once we die. So, no matter how lost we may feel, Jesus is always directing the feet of the faithful believers to his presence.
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Despite Jesus’s words of comfort, Thomas was still overwhelmed about Jesus teaching concerning his death.
His question ships the focus from where Jesus is going to the disciples, inability to know the way in verse five.
Wherever Jesus is headed, what Thomas beliefs to disciples needs as a roadmap. They needed to know the way they should go, and a roadmap should provide that direction.
Two question, Jesus turns his lost disciples back to himself. The only roadmap that anyone needs is Jesus. He is the way.
More than that….
Jesus is not just the true way to the place that he is preparing, but he is also the true way to the father.
And those who followed Jesus as the true way, also receive eternal life with the Son and the father. For “Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to me except to the father” – in verse six The only map we need, in this case, is Jesus.
According to verse 7
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also.[d] From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Jesus then rebukes his disciples for their lack of faith. A lack of faith is what displeases God from us too. After all this time, their concerns suggests that they may not know Jesus the way they should. To know Jesus is to know the father. So, it is no wonder that they were feeling lost. By losing track of Jesus and his plans, they had lost track of their father and his plans. But even here, once they understood who Jesus is and what he must do, they will then know with certainty the father and his plans. 
8 Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” 9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Evidently, this teaching showed the disciples to be not only lost, but also disoriented. Have you ever been disoriented?
Unable to accept Jesus‘s teachings that face value, Philip appealed to Jesus to show them the father because Philip thought that would be enough to get himself and the disciples back on track. Yet, the nature of this request shows how truly lost and disoriented they all were. Not even Moses, who spent as much time as he did with God ever saw God. But what about the disciples and their time with Jesus? They had not seen enough to believe that Jesus and the father are one. (10:30)
Yet, now, Jesus is concerned that they are in no better shape than he is opponents whom he urge to believe his works and had come from the father, even if they could not believe that Jesus himself is the father and the father is in him (10:37–38; 14:10 –)? So, whether Philip realized it or not, his request had already been granted. Since they knew Jesus, they had already seen the father. 
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
In the end, Jesus showed greater faith and his disciples than they did in him. Jesus knew that after his resurrection, his disciples were finally understand, and though him as the way, the truth, and the life. And after they experienced the resurrected Jesus they would begin to live out their mission. Though Jesus will be absent in the flesh, he will be present in their ministry through the Holy Spirit. (14.16-17)
Because Jesus is so certain of his future for his disciples he can even say they will receive whatever they ask in his name because they will be seeking to glorify the father and the son (14:13). If only we could always see things and others, as Jesus did, because if we did, we would not feel lost like the disciples. But if we cannot see things that Jesus does, may we, at least, trust that Jesus will show us the way.
What road signs have you seen on your spiritual
journey that tell you you’re on the right track?
