John 14:1

In John 14:1, Jesus said to the disciples, Let not your hearts be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.  The disciples were about to go through a terrible experience. They were going to see Jesus arrested, tried, and crucified. Jesus is the One they had left everything to follow, and in the eyes of the world, He was about to be a big failure.  Jesus was telling them not to let the things of the world trouble their hearts.  We, as His followers, are told not to worry, which would be letting our hearts be troubled.  We don't have to be concerned about the things of this world ever defeating us, no matter how bad they look.  Jesus said that if they believed in God they were to also believe in Him.  He wasn't just another man, but He was the Messiah.  Like then, today if we are to come to God, it must be through Jesus.  Verse two adds, In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.  The disciples were about to see Jesus crucified, but He told them He wasn't leaving them permanently but was going to prepare a place for them.  When we become followers of Jesus, He will never desert us.  There is debate today about whether Jesus said there were many mansions or many rooms in His Father's house.  That really doesn't matter. The real statement is that a place is prepared for us.  Some who want to say a room instead of a mansion in heaven feel that Jesus promised them a mansion here, where everything is just temporary.  As His followers, we need to realize that whether here or in Heaven, God is with us, and that is all we need.  Verse three continues, And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.  Jesus had told the disciples they couldn't go with Him where He was going but promised them He would return for them.  That promise is what we live for today.  Jesus has prepared a place for us to spend everlasting life, and our hearts should not be troubled as we are His.  He will come for His people when the time is right.  Verse four states, And whether I go ye know, and ye know the way.  The disciples may not have understood what Jesus meant at the time, but they came to understand that Jesus was returning to the Father, and that faith in Him was the way for them to get there.  This has always been the only way to salvation.  Verse five adds, Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whether though goest, and how can we know the way?  As just discussed, until after His death, burial and resurrection, the disciples really didn't know where Jesus was going nor how to get there.  Verse six continues, Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father but by me.  Jesus is still the only way to salvation.  Verse seven concludes, If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know, him and have seen him.  Jesus Christ came to earth as a man, but He was still fully God.  So if we have seen Jesus through faith in Him as our personal Savior and Lord, we have seen God.