The Lord is awe-inspiring, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him in 1 John 5:11-12,
“This is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.”
This testimony that John speaks of is the testimony that God the Father has given about his Son. We who have embraced Jesus Christ in faith have eternal life, and this eternal life is in his Son, Jesus Christ. In verse one of this chapter John says that “everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And, as John quotes Jesus in John 14:6, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
As I attempt to meditate on this wonderful gift of eternal life afresh, I find it somewhat difficult to wrap my mind around all that is implied with the notion that I have eternal life as my own possession today! As all others (accept those who are here when the Lord returns), I will pass through physical death. But on the other side of physical death there will be a loving Savior waiting to receive me into his presence together with all those believers who have preceded me. And then at the appointed time, on the day of the resurrection of life, I will be united with my transformed body for an eternal existence.
Will I have the same or similar talents and abilities in the resurrection that I have in this life? What kind of projects and purposes will I be engaged in? Will I be doing some kind of work for a living? What might that be? What kind of language will we all be speaking and will there be different languages? How much of our past will be reflected in eternal life? Will there still be gender and race? Will we all be in our biological prime for all eternity? Will it be impossible to skin my knee? Will I get to go fishing? Will we play hearts or Monopoly? What kinds of holidays will we have on our calendars? Will we have family identity? Will I have a checkbook to balance?
There are just all kinds of questions that can be asked about eternal life, life in the resurrection. I could take a stab at answering a few of them but I myself don’t know much with certainty. One thing I am certain of though is that I do now possess eternal life and that life is in Jesus Christ. I know with certainty that life in the resurrection is going to be wonderful as we will be communing with our God. It is the presence of Jesus Christ that makes eternal life the wonder and fascination it will be!
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share your theme of worship with us from your Bible reading today. We’d love to hear from you!
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