Isaiah 26:7 The path of the righteous is level; you make level the way of the righteous.

The Way, it’s meant to be effortless.

John 14:6 (parsed) “I am the way.” 

Jesus never tried to “make a name for himself”. Looking at what He did will remind us that He always pointed to the Father.

• Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;
• Matthew 11:26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
• Matthew 12:50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

The will of the Father was always paramount.

John 5:30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.”

Yet we struggle. If this is meant to be effortless, why do we struggle?

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children;”

Little children know that they do not know. We cannot discover the will of the Father through intellect. 

1 Corinthians 8:1 (parsed) we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Jesus showed us how to love God the Father. He is the Way of Love.

Terms for Truth

The English word has developed and maintained the broadest, most general and varied usage, going beyond both Hebrew and Greek, which were already extended in connotation. It is possible to analyze and classify the special applications of the term almost indefinitely, using other terms to indicate specific meanings in special connections, e.g. loyalty (Jud 9:15); honesty (Ex 18:21); fidelity (De 32:4); justice (Ro 2:2); uprightness (Isa 38:3); faith (Isa 26:2); righteousness (Ps 85:10); reality (Joh 17:19); veracity (Ge 42:16). It is unfortunate that translators have generally adhered to single terms to represent the original words. On the other hand, they have sometimes introduced words not represented in the original, and thus unduly limited the meaning. An example is Eph 4:15, where the original meaning “being true,” i.e. in all respects, is narrowed to “speaking the truth.” Source: International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

John 3:33 Whoever receives his testimony sets his seal to this, that God is true.

Ephesians 1:13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 4:30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

John 14:17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 15:26 “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

John 16:13 When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Only those things revealed to us by the Holy Spirit by the will of Father God are to be considered true. Everything else is subject to translation, examination and searching out the lies that are contained within.

John 8:44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience

We all were born into this world where the airwaves were filled with lies. That is the realm of the devil, Satan, the father of lies. Satan has not stopped for one moment in his quest to lie to everyone in order to keep us from the truth. It is the only weapon he has in this world.

Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

John 14:6 (parsed) Jesus said to him, “I am the truth”