"Come, and you will see."

What are some of the most notable or memorable words anyone has ever spoken to you?  They are probably words that changed the course of your life.  Words such as, "Will you marry me?"  "It's cancer."  "We're pregnant!"  "I'm sorry but he didn't make it."

Andrew and John were with John the Baptist when he cried out, "Behold, the Lamb of God."  They immediately followed Jesus.  We are told that Jesus turned and saw them following and asked them what they were seeking.  Andrew and John responded with the question, "Where are You staying?"  Jesus then replied with, "Come, and you will see."  I don't think the Lord was simply inviting them to discover where He was staying.  He was inviting them to come and gain from Him.  Just what was it that they would gain?  Insight into the very mind of God! 

This invitation changed the course of these two men's lives.  We are not given the record of what they discussed that evening but no doubt the Lord opened their minds to the things concerning Himself in the Scriptures.

In a previous post I told you John 17 was one of my favorite chapters in the Bible.  Here we find the Lord talking to His Father just prior to going to the cross.  I love John 17:3 - "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent."  Eternal life is not simply endless existence.  Everyone will exist somewhere, forever.  The question is, in what condition or in what relationship will they spend eternity?  In what condition is your life at right now?  What is your relationship to God?  Your eternity began the moment you were born.  In what condition or in what relationship will you spend eternity? 

John said the purpose of his writing was so that the reader might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior, the Son of God; and that believing the reader might have life in His name.  (John 20:31)  John is talking about eternal life, not physical life, though Jesus is the Creator of that too.  The insight we gain from what John learned by being with Jesus for three years is that eternal life is knowing a Person.  It is gained by what you believe about that Person.  I'm inviting you to spend some time with me in the book of John.  Here we find God, the one, the only true God.  Here we find Jesus Christ, the Savior whom the only true God sent, whose birth we celebrate at this time of year.  Here we find real, wonderful, amazing, abundant, thirst-quenching, soul-satisfying, eternal life which begins right here, on this earth!