Ever feel overwhelmed by what’s ahead and unsure how you’ll manage it all? In today’s devotional, Keri Eichberger reflects on John 14:5–6 and reminds us that Jesus doesn’t just show us the way — He is the way. When we stay close to Him, we don’t have to figure it all out alone. He’ll guide us, strengthen us, and walk with us every step of the way.

✨ Key Takeaways

💡 Jesus isn’t simply giving you directions — He is the path through your challenges
💡 God doesn’t open doors without also providing what you need to walk through them
💡 Your inner doubts don’t cancel out your divine calling
💡 Even when you feel underqualified, God’s presence qualifies you
💡 Faith means trusting that where God leads, He also equips

🌿 Intersecting Faith & Life

Are you facing a new opportunity or responsibility that feels like too much?

What would it look like to rely on God’s strength rather than your own today?

In what areas have you seen God make a way for you in the past — and how can that encourage your next steps?

What small prayer or reminder could help ground you when doubts rise up?

📖 Further Reading

Isaiah 30:21 | Proverbs 16:9 | Psalm 32:8 | Philippians 4:13 | Romans 8:14

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Full Transcript Below:

God Will Make a Way Because He is the Way

By Keri Eichberger

Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:5-6) 

I feel something brewing. Some fresh glimmers of hope and encouraging change on the horizon. And following a slow stretched out season of what has felt like the same ole, same ole, laced with increased chronic pain, dwindling energy, and swelling isolation, any potential change is welcome. And I give God all the glory for the prospective opportunities that have arisen, including promising pain relief. But even still, there’s this thick thorn that remains in my side. A raging roadblock in my spirit, weighing me down and instilling doubt. It’s the narrative in my inner being. Words of insufficiency and incompetence and flat out inability. I’ve been praying relentlessly for God to work in me and through me—to show me his way. And he has certainly opened some sun-shiny doors. But if I’m being honest, I just can’t see how I can carry out and work through all the things he seems to be calling me to. 

Do you ever wonder how you will conquer the quests in front of you? How you’ll take on the commitments you’ve committed to. How you’ll take the steps toward the dream opportunities stirring up desire within you? Or just wonder how you'll do it all well?

I do. I asked myself, Where will I find the time, the energy, and the mental and emotional capacity? I bet you’ve had similar thoughts.

But, I think we are neglecting a truth amidst these circumstances and contemplations. If God truly is the one leading us to these things, won’t he also lead us through these things? I read a familiar verse the other morning in my devotion time, and it spoke truth directly to my wondering wearying heart. In verse five of Chapter 14, in the book of John, the disciple Thomas says to Jesus, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Which is a sentiment many of us feel when we’ve come to a confusing crossroads of potential choices, tasks, or opportunities, joined with what seems to be a lack of ability, margin, and resources. We might ask God, What is all this, and how am I supposed to handle it?

But as I kept reading, it was my fresh perspective to the first statement of the following verse—that is so very familiar to us as Christians—that fueled my confidence in the answer to the “how will I manage” thoughts. Verse six reads, “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.’”

Jesus is the way.

When we don’t know, or can’t see, the way forward and through. Jesus is the way forward and through.

To me, this means that as long as I remain in him and with him, and he is thus also in me and with me, I don’t have to fear my faithful steps and choices. Because the way through will be with me. He will make a way, because he is the way. And he is in me. Just like he is in you. 

Intersecting Faith and Life:

Friend, the Lord led you to where you are. He opened the perfect doors, and he carved the precise path. So keep following him closely, and remain in him always. He will sufficiently strengthen you, steer you, and supply for you all that you need. All the way. Because our sovereign loving Lord is… the way.

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