Whats all the fuss about eternal life? Well eternal life is not living forever or existing forever is something totally different actually. It is defined clearly in the verse below.
John 17: 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the Son may glorify thee, 2 since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom thou hast given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. 4 I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou gavest me to do.
God gave Jesus the power to give us eternal life, and Jesus accomplished that.
This is an important and beautiful scripture that we all should read and absorb as much as possible. Jesus came to give us all eternal life and Verse 4 shows that Jesus succeeded in doing this work. He defines eternal life as knowing God and knowing Jesus whom God sent.
Its is as simple and as complicated as that.
...but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
In eternal life there is health, wealth, success, deliverance, protection, salvation, love, peace, victory and an endless list of blessings. Not only does eternal life give you all these things, you also become bold and start getting other people to know God and have eternal life. Like 2 Corinthians 2:14 says Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
This whole love story between God and man is centered around his desire for us to know him. When we know him we will live in, exhibit and fulfill all the wonderous things he has in store for us. We would be the REAL mighty deliverer of creation that he has called us to be, and nothing can stand in our way. This version of us is activated by out knowledge of him. Every precious promise of God is accessed through eternal life. Halleluyah!
Eternal life ensures we live in our rightful place which Ephesians 2:6 says is seated together with Christ in heavely places. Ephesians 2:6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Here is my questions to you today:
- Do you know God or do you know about him?
The enemy fights daily by trying to take away our knowledge of God or by trying to prevent us from getting any knowledge in the first place. We may fight many battles in a day, month or life time but the battle that matters most, is the one to sustain our relationship with God. An on going knowing of him.
Ephesians 6:10 says Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
We have a mighty, awesome glorious God, who has all power, is the only true God, worthy of all praise and honour. We need to live the life he has designed for us. We live this life by knowing him Colossians 2:10-15Colossians 2:10-15
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins[a] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
What we need to remember as believers is to:
Resist anything that stops us from getting to know God.
Ignore anything that stops from discovering what God's word has too say about us
Fight anything that fights our ability to know God and Jesus whom he sent.
Spend time nurturing our relationship with God.
Remember that knowing about God is different from knowing him. Just like knowing about Steve Jobs is different from knowing him (like his children would).
So many battles we end up fighting wouldn't even start if we KNOW, so lets get going and start knowing.
Prayer
Almighty king, my redeemer my helper. Alagbada Ina! There is no body greater than you. Help me Lord, that I may know you and the power of your salvation
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