"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)

Many European towns still bear the marks of having been surrounded by walls in the Middle Ages. Streets near these old walls are curved and sometimes come to dead ends. A man stopped a stranger and asked him the way to reach a certain address. The stranger directed him but the enquirer was still a little dubious. "Is that the best way?" he asked. The stranger quickly answered, "It is the only way. If you follow the other turning it will bring you back here."

That is a great illustration of the way to God through Jesus Christ and His death on the cross. Someone might ask, "Is that the best way?" The only answer is the truth: "It is the only way" (John 14:6). Any other turning will take you, not back to where you are, but off into outer darkness of separation from God. (From Bible Truths Illustrated, by Donald Grey Barnhouse, p. 22)