This is life eternal

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. John 17:3    The passage that opens this article is taken from one of my favorite chapters in all of Scripture. The entirety of John 17 is an intimate, personal prayer that Jesus spoke to his Father while in the Garden of Gethsemane. It reveals what was on our Lord’s mind as he prepared to give his life on the cross, which was his intense love for the church he would be leaving behind....