Christ Is Not the Destination—He Shows Me the Way Home

When Jesus Christ says, “Come unto me,” I don’t understand that to mean that Christ Himself is the final destination of my eternal journey.

He points me toward God the Eternal Father.

Jesus said:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

There is an important direction in those words:

unto the Father.

Christ is the way.

The Father is Home.

And perhaps that is why the word HOME has become such a meaningful image to me.

H — OM — E

Look at the word:

H OM E

OM is sitting right in the center of HOME.

Across ancient spiritual traditions, Om has been used as a sacred sound associated with ultimate reality, existence, and the divine. That isn’t a doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I am not presenting it as one.

I see it as a metaphor.

We spend so much of mortality looking outward for somewhere to arrive.

Maybe part of our journey is also inward—remembering who we are, whose children we are, and where Home actually is.

For me, Home begins with God the Eternal Father.

Jesus Christ helps me find my way Home.

The Holy Ghost helps me recognize truth along the way.

And the Atonement makes returning possible.

Finding the Center

Perhaps the journey isn’t about chasing Christ toward some distant destination.

Perhaps Christ is saying:

Come. Let Me show you the way.

Come back to truth.

Come back to accountability.

Come back to love.

Come back to your covenants.

Come back to your relationship with God.

Come back to who you are.

Come Home.

Christ doesn’t take my agency and carry me there against my will.

He shows the way.

I still walk.

I still choose.

I still learn.

I still repent.

I still become.

And when I lose my bearings, I can return to the center.

H — OM — E.

Not because four letters prove a religious doctrine.

Because sometimes a word can become a reminder:

Stop searching everywhere else for what brings you back to God.

At-One-Ment and Home

That brings me back to the word Atonement.

At-one-ment.

Things that have become separated can be reconciled.

Spirit and body.

Humanity and God.

People and truth.

Families separated by death.

The person I have been and the person I am becoming.

Jesus Christ’s Atonement makes reconciliation possible, and His Resurrection declares that even death cannot permanently separate what God intends to restore.

So Christ isn’t simply a destination I am trying to reach.

He is my Savior and Eternal Brother who shows me the way to the Father.

And the destination is not merely a place.

It is belonging again.

It is reconciliation.

It is eternal family.

It is returning to the presence of God the Eternal Father.

It is Home.

H OM E

Sometimes what we spend our whole lives searching for has been waiting for us to recognize the center.