John 14:1-7 English Standard Version
I Am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life
1“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. 4 And you know the way to where I am going.” 5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
We often focus on the place being prepared for us in terms of eternal life but this eternal life starts the moment we are born again into the Kingdom of God. This place prepared for us is a new heart where Christ abides in us.
Ezekiel 36:26 English Standard Version (ESV) And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Galatians 2:20 English Standard Version (ESV) I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Christ is the Life. The life we have is because we have accepted Christ into our hearts. The eternal life has already begun and it is not over, we are still living in Christ and He lives in us. As for the Way, He made it possible by going to the cross and sacrificing His life for ours. Our way to this life is through faith in that sacrifice, His resurrection and His ascension.