The Way and The Truth and The Life

I have been reading John 13:31-14:14 over and over again, for days.
In these 22 verses I find so much more that I question, that seems out of reach, than I actually understand. I wonder why I don't just move on. But I am held here, rooted, fixated on a Jesus who is becoming more than a man. More than a prophet, more than a teacher, more than the latest self-help guru, more than a new plan or a new theology...
more than good and nice.

John 13:34,35

"A new command I give you: Love one another.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples,

if you love one another.

John 14:1-14

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me...

You know the way to the place where I am going...

I am The Way and The Truth and The Life...

No one comes to the Father except through me.

If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well.

From now on, you do know Him and have seen Him.

...Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father...

I am in the Father and the Father is in me.

The words I say to you are not just my own.

Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.

Believe Me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me...

I tell you the Truth.

Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.

He will do even greater things than these...

Because I am going to the Father.

And I will do whatever you ask in My Name,

so that the Son may bring Glory to the Father

You may ask me for anything in My Name, and I will do it."

Here is Jesus.
Not a nice guy with a plan to get us all to Heaven...
Heaven touching Earth.
Here is Jesus.

Not a prophet with a vision from God...

God in flesh and blood.

Here is Jesus.

Not an angel among us...

Fully Human and Fully God.

Not a plan, but the plan.

What if it's not just about getting to Heaven,

but about getting to Jesus?

What if we get to Jesus and discover that

The Way has a lot less to do with where we go when we die,

and a lot more to do with embracing...

The fullness of our Humanity
and the fullness of our Divinity?