Belief to Eternal Life

Can you accept that He ‘who is above all’ is actually telling the truth when He ‘bears witness’ to everything He says about the desire of God the Father, God the Spirit and God the Son to enter into eternal life with you? What could you possibly do to merit such favor, to receive something you have no right to in yourself, something you could never earn no matter how well intentioned you might be?

Can you believe that God is true when He says, “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life” or the opposite that, “Whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him”? Notice that belief is Life while the opposite is not acting upon the truth of God and receiving the opposite of Life. ‘Does not obey’ isn’t simply doing life your way but is decidedly not agreeing with the Creator’s precepts for Life in full commitment to His desires. While we typically think of God’s wrath being His hatred of us, could it not be that experience of not being willing to receive His relationship terms and living out the consequences of Life totally, eternally devoid of Him.

Would any of us choose to live with the LORD for eternity if we did not desire to live with Him in this first stage of our lives? Our eternity begins when we are born and we determine our destiny during our earthly life by the simple choice of Belief or going our own way forever. Belief is from the heart and is actionable, lived out in committed relationship with who He truly is, caring about what He says is forever valued. God is not going to pressure us into an eternity with Him that is different than our relationship with Him in this Life. Only if we agree with Him now will we have the ‘burden’ of forever in His presence where His will is always done fully. Anything else would be Hell.