This is life eternal
This is life eternal THE INESTIMABLE BLESSING OF WHICH OUR LORD SPEAKS. Life is a great boon. “My kingdom,” a dying monarch is reported to have said, “for an inch of time.” Yet after all what is this present life in itself ( James 4:14 )? And when it is most eagerly prized and most hilariously spent, its possessor may in the saddest sense be dead ( Romans 8:6 ). Eternal life is the highest possible life for man. Two causes may end our life on earth. It may be terminated by external force or by inward disease. Eternal life 1. Has nothing to terminate it from without. Force from God alone can end life; and the Divine power is entirely on the side of this life. 2. Is without anything to end it from within. Disease destroys physical life. But eternal life is the progress and consummation of a life begun on earth by a new birth from God, and has in it no element of evil. II. HOW CAN THIS LIFE BE REALIZED? It is not that this knowledge leads or points out the w...