In My Father’s House Are Many Rooms

I recently had the privilege of attending a friend’s funeral. I say privilege because it proved to be a wonderfully uplifting experience. The deceased was a client of my accounting practice who died unexpectedly at the age of 52 as he prepared for work at his motor repair and servicing business. The small village church near Tamworth was literally full to overflowing as 250 people tried to get into a church with pews for about 100. It could have been a morose farewell to a popular local man, but the vicar was determined otherwise, and thanked everyone for coming to celebrate the deceased’s life and the triumph of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the victory over death that He has won for all of us. That wonderful gospel reading from John followed (John, ch. 14, vv. 2 – 7) in which Jesus tells his disciples that he will soon be leaving them to prepare a place for them to join Him. Thomas, a disciple who was never quick off the mark, protests that they don’t know where Her is going, so how can they know the way? Jesus replies in one of the simplest and most powerful verses of the gospel “I am the way, the truth and the life. No-one comes to the Father except through me.”

What a promise and available to all of us if we only follow Him.

God bless you all

Keith Brown