And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son (1 John 5:11).
Eternal life is not a promise from God that we look forward to Him fulfilling in our lives in the sweet by-and-by. It’s something He’s already given to us FREE! The Bible says, “…the gift of God is eternal life” (Romans 6:23). That gift has been freely given to everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
Eternal life or everlasting life doesn’t just mean an unending life; it includes that, but there’s more. Eternal life is actually the nature of God; it is the very life that God has. That’s the life that Jesus brought to the world; He came that we might have life to the full (John 10:10). The vibrant, glorious transcendent life of God in its fullness is what Jesus brought, and if you believe in Him, that’s what you’ve received into your spirit.
You may not feel it in your body that you’ve received the life of God. That’s because eternal life is in your spirit and not your physical body, but then it affects your body. So you don’t have to “feel” it in your body first to be conscious that you have eternal life; it’s there in your spirit. That’s why the Apostle John, writing to the Church towards the end of his ministry here on earth, thought it necessary to remind God’s children to be conscious that they have eternal life: “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life…” (1 John 5:13).
Your consciousness of your personality, identity and inheritance affects the way you live; it controls the decisions you make and the things that happen with you and around you. This is why I’m urging you today to be conscious of the divine life of God that’s in you. God wants you to know that you have eternal life, hence you’re not ordinary; He wants you to know what you have and who you are.
The life in you is the miracle-life! It’s incorruptible—it can’t be tainted, defiled or corrupted by sickness, disease, failure, death or the devil; no negative force can withstand you when you live every day conscious of this.
Confession
Dear Father, thank You for sending Your Son, Jesus, to die for me. Thank You, Jesus, because you suffered and died in my Place, I am completely forgiven of all my sins and have eternal life with you forever. I receive your love and your life to live in me by the power of the Holy Spirit. I’m conscious always of this life and live it to the full. Halleluiah!
Further Study
1John 5:11-12 MSG This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(Taken by permission from Christ Embassy Church , aka Believer’s LoveWorld Ministries , Lagos, Nigeria. www.ChristEmbassy.org )
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