Dear Lord Jesus, meditating on this passage this morning has been like revisiting an old friend, for I can remember the first time I memorized this verse and you began writing it upon my heart. That was over forty years ago, yet I feel like I’m just beginning to understand the true wonder of eternal life—the life that is ours… that is mine, only because of who you are and what you’ve accomplished for us. As you first uttered these words in a prayer for your disciples, I find great joy in knowing that you continue to pray them for us… for me.

How I praise you that eternal life is so much more than simply living forever in your presence… though I so look forward to that. It’s about knowing, in the most intimate sense imaginable… it’s about knowing God, as my Father, and knowing you—the “sent one,” the Messiah, our Lord, my Savior, our Righteousness, my Bridegroom. Not merely knowing about you, though there is so much more I do want to know about you… but knowing you now, better and better and better.

Holy Spirit, I cannot know God better apart from your work. So my prayer is simple, keep me hungry for the knowledge of God. Don’t let lesser breads satisfy this craving. Don’t let lesser waters slake this thirst. Keep revealing more and more of Jesus to me. Humble me with his glory. Astonish me with his beauty. Mesmerize me with his mercy. Buckle my knees with his affections. Change me by his grace. Free me for his purposes. For indeed, “the people who know their God will stand firm and take action” (Daniel 11:32). So very Amen, I pray, in Jesus’ all consuming name.

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