A.T. Pierson, on the riches of the"eternal" life of John 3:16:
If I am a child of God by faith in Jesus Christ, all the past of God I inherit as well as all the future of God. Being a child of God, whatever is glorious in the past eternity of God comes to enrich my present and my future.
When God has a child born to him in his family by faith in Jesus Christ, the child does not simply start with the present moment of birth to enjoy a future that shall be blessed, but God enriches that new heir of glory by all that there is in the gorious past of his eternal existence. You have God for your Father, and all God's past is in Christ your past also.
Posted by apelles at June 22, 2003 09:54 PM