1John 5:20 - Stalkers

”But we are having come to know that the Son of God is come and He has given to us understanding in order that we may be knowing the True, and we are in the True, in His Son Jesus Christ.  This is the True God and eternal life.” 

-We know who we are.  We know Whose we are.  And we know Him Whose we are.  We know the Son of God and He Who sent Him.  And we are His.  This One Who was in the beginning, God the Son, eternal almighty Creator, co-equal with the Father.  We know this One Who became flesh and walked among us, coming to seek and save the lost, bringing life abundant overflowing and eternal.

-We know Jesus, and God the Father.  He Who is true.  The one true God.  He is God, and there is no other (Deuteronomy 4.39, Isaiah 45.5).  There is no one like Him, Who is over all and in all and through all, from Whom and for Whom are all things (2Samuel 7.22, Ephesians 4.6, Romans 11.36, 1Corinthians 8.6).  He made all things (Isaiah 44.24, John 1.3, Acts 17.24-25), He can do all things (Job 42.2) - for Him all things are possible (Matthew 19.26).  Nothing is too difficult for Him (Jeremiah 32.27, Luke 1.37).  This is Who we know!  And we are IN Him (cf John 17.21).  This is not about dry detached knowledge.  It’s about identity - see who we are in v 18, permanently and forever forgiven and set apart, secure in His forever love.  But it’s more than that even.  It is intimate friendship (1John 1.3), fully and forever caught up into His love (1John 4.16), His Words and His ways (1John 2.5-6), into His very being.  We are so into Him, so IN to Him, focused on Him, becoming like Him, caught up and absorbed with Him, with the things of Him.  It can (and very well should) look like obsession.  Everything about us is all about Him, it all goes back to Him.  Stalkers - that’s what we are.  God-stalkers.  Stalking Jesus.  It is Count Zinzendorf exclaiming, “It is He!  It is He alone!”

-And why should we not be magnificently obsessed with this heavenly pearl?  Jesus is the true God.  God the Son, the only begotten God (John 1.18).  Make no mistake.  He left us no other option.  He truly did make Himself out to be God (John 10.10, 10.33).  John recorded it then, and he restates it for us now.  And this is Who we know!  Jesus is also eternal life.  There is no other source, no other way - He alone is the life (John 11.25, 14.6).  In Him alone is life (John 1.4).  He alone has the words of eternal life (John 6.68).  Yes, He is the Resurrection.  Raised by the Father to eternal life, never to perish or decay or break down.  Magnificently raised to unfading glory.  Breathtaking goodness forever and ever.  And when we come to know Him He gives this same resurrected eternal life to each of us, an unfading crown of glory which He reserves in heaven for you and for me (1Peter 1.4, 5.4) - whenever we hear His voice, and believe in and follow Him (John 10.28).  Knowing Him, and the one true God, and Jesus Christ Whom He sent - THIS is life, eternal life (John 17.3)!