If someone were to ask you why you desire eternal life, how would you answer? Is it because it appears to be a better place to go to than to go to hell? Is it because of the quality of life you think you will experience there? Is it because those you love will be there? Those may be good reasons, but according to our verse the main reason is God. Do we seek heaven for its assumed benefits or for the joy of being with God? Is a deeper knowledge of God and a growing relationship with him drawing you to heaven? You may find your answer by answering the questions: "What do you have the greatest interest in, the world or God?" "Which of those two do you love and like to spend time with the most?" Based upon your answers, are you sure you have eternal life?
What is eternal life? It is knowing the only true God, even Jesus Christ whom he sent to purchase our salvation. This Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through him (John 14:6). Is Jesus the bridge to heaven for you? Remember, Jesus was sent to earth to die on the cross, to pay for and build that bridge for you to cross over. Have you received the gift of eternal life to allow you to use the bridge when the time comes?
Prayer
Father, I thank you that ". . . by grace [we] have been saved through faith. And this is not [our] own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:8 - 10 ESV).
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