Another World

By its very nature, the Christian life is a call to discover our true home. This suppose, of course, that all this stuff is not. I like the quote by CS Lewis "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."  Do you remember years ago the TV show "Lost in Space" [1965-1968]. The story was basically built around the image of a family from Earth that had gotten lost in space [through the arrogance Dr. Smith] and were now desperately trying to find their way home. Each planet they visited provided glimpses home. They met people  not all that different from themselves who promised to know the way home but often didn't. Sometimes they encoungered terrifying dangers that they would just narrowly escape. Sometimes even though they might be on the verge of finding a way home, Dr. Smith, that self-absorbed thorn in the flesh, would screw it up yet again and the journey would start anew. I suppose the family could have made due on one of those planets and made the best of a bad situation. Of course that would have made for a very short series. But no matter how pleasant the planet seemed, it just wasn't quite right, and they knew it. It wasn't home and they new they could never be satisfied with less. When Jesus tells us in John 14:6 that "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." He is essentially saying that there is no other map for which you will find you way home. Since Jesus is the only one ever to come from the Father, then He is the only one that knows the way back to the Father. He is the map, He is the Guide, and He is the Light for our feet.  How does this metaphor speak to you? Is it accurate or does it yet again miss the mark? If you were to create a different metaphor for what you've experienced in the Christian life, what would it be? Let's talk about it.