In general, when Jesus is telling people not to be worried, frightened and troubled, it’s because he is talking to people who are worried, frightened and troubled. But he always followed such instruction with a relational assurance – a relationship with him is the reason and the capability for following such a command.
Remember that was not a conversation with people who understood what Christ was saying in light of the cross, the epistles, the church and the creeds. Instead, it was radical, scandalous and downright blasphemous.
But Jesus himself is the Way – and we saw Marianne Goddard follow that Way in her life. And Jesus was himself Truth – the person of Jesus was the Truth of Jesus. In a world of shifting and conflicting truths and falsehoods, Marianne lived with Jesus as her truth.
And Jesus himself is the Life, and the only passage to the Father. Jesus came to proclaim the “upside-down kingdom.” To lead you must serve, to win you must lose, to live you must die. Today, we mourn and miss Marianne. It is a loss that aches. But Marianne knew Christ as her Way, her Truth and her Life, and through the gift of faith she received through grace, she now lives in glory in the presence of her Savior.
May her life serve as a call to us. If we also know Christ as our way, truth and life, may it serve as a reminder of what we aspire to. If we do not, let us see her beckoning us to know Him as she does.
– Notes from the Memorial Service for Marianne Goddard, Jeremy Taylor, Temple Baptist Church, Portland, OR
John 14:1-6
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