Contemplative Bible Reading

John 17:3 (New Living Translation)

And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth.

Want eternal life? Who doesn’t. How do we get? What is the way? Where do we go?

Good questions. The verse above tells us in a few, simple words: know God and know Jesus, the one sent to earth.

When we know God, we are in eternal life. Sure, the present and frail physical body will fail in a few years, but the soul is already in eternal life with God.

Simple? Maybe. I cannot, however, understand all of this as my mind is too small to comprehend God and what God tells us about these things. Still, I can reach for this. I can reach for knowing God and knowing Jesus, the one sent to earth.

Thank you God for this “head start” on heaven. And that is a simple-minded, human-limited way of trying to understand it all.