Our Source of Life

“Our Father in heaven is the source of life, of wisdom, and of joy,” (SC 9).

Of Life.--“In Him was life; and the life was the light of men,” (John 1:4). “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” (John 14:6). “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life,” (1 John 5:12). I have often said that before I came to know Christ it is was as though I had not lived, as though I never breathed before, as though I had never laughed before. His life is a tangible reality now, it is the Christians pleasure—“In Thy presence is fullness of joy, at Thy right hand there are pleasures forever more,” (Ps. 16:11). “In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived,” (DA 530). To know Him is to have life, abundant, eternal. “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly,” (John 10:10). “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent,” (John 17:3). A knowledge of God, eternal life, heaven—begin today.
As through Jesus we enter into rest, heaven begins here. We respond to His invitation, Come, learn of Me, and in thus coming we begin the life eternal. Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. The longer we are in the heaven of bliss, the more and still more of glory will be opened to us; and the more we know of God, the more intense will be our happiness. As we walk with Jesus in this life, we may be filled with His love, satisfied with His presence. (Desire of Ages 331)