“I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.” John 6:47
We can have a view of eternal life as being an infinite period of time (a la the lyric in Amazing Grace: ‘When we’ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise, Than when we first begun’). But in reality, eternity is much different. Infinite time has its down sides – you can’t relive the past. Eternal life, rather, is a constant state of being more alive than ever before.
What’s even more amazing about this verse is that Jesus says if we believe in Him, we already have this eternal life – not ‘will have’ it, but ‘has’ it right now. Because eternity has no time, we are in heaven right now with Him.
This may be a difficult concept to grasp, and I’m leaning very heavily on my childlike faith of just accepting this truth because Jesus said it is so. But we won’t have to wait very long, and it’ll all make sense.
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