This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

 Eternal Life:

 

            Eternal life ... To know Thee and Jesus:

 

John 17:2-3

2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.

3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

 

            We have been given to Him and because of that we have eternal life. This is not simply everlasting life. Everyone will exist forever, but not all will have an existence that is worth living everlastingly. Only those that are His will want to live eternally. This eternal life also has a quality about it. This quality comes in knowing the Father and the Son. This knowing begins the moment we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior. He lives eternally within us when we are born again. This day to day relationship with Him is what makes everlasting life worth having. It is an abundant life filled with mystery and awe as we see Him performing miracles in our lives. We can know Him in an intimate way. We can converse with Him every day. We can sense His presence in a very real way. We can be with Him eternally.

 

If you could hear God speak to you, I believe this is what He would say:

            "You can know Me, My children. It is not so impossible to think, is it? I am the Almighty God; and yet I desire to know you and for you to know Me fully. It is not beyond your grasp, is it? I only have desire for you to know Me in a way that never was before. No one before My Son came knew Me in the way that you can. Come unto Me, and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not know.”

 

            4. I have come to know the Father and the Son. I will know them eternally, for that is the gift God has given me.