“And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the
only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ.” John 17:3
The eternal life which we secure by believing does indeed
relate to future blessing, but it also has a meaning for us today. This life
constitutes here and now an introduction to God through his Son Jesus Christ.
Without it, no amount of mental exercise can equip us to
know God. We may reason about him, we may familiarize ourselves with the Bible
and its teachings, we may even labor zealously for him in some field of service,
but not until we accept life eternal as his gift will we discover and enjoy
personal knowledge of him.
Faith in human ideals is no substitute for knowing God in
our spirits. To believe on the Lord Jesus is to enter into eternal life as a
present reality and to discover thereby a knowledge of the true God that we
never possessed before.
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