Today it’s popular to assume that you can inherit eternal life by osmosis. It doesn’t happen that way. Yet I’ve met sincere people who say “I was born a Christian” or “I’ve been a Christian all my life.”

During a lunch break at a conference, a Scottish man who had been in the ministry for 17 years came to me and said, “Luis, I don’t know if I have eternal life.” As we talked together, he explained that two of my team members had visited him and his wife the evening before. Both men happened to mention their assurance of eternal life during the visit. After they left, the minister asked his wife, “Dear, do you have eternal life?” She said, “Phil, I don’t know. Do you?” “You know that I don’t,” he replied. “What are we going to do?” She suggested that he talk with me the very next day. And that noon hour, Phil received eternal life and soon afterward his wife did too. Like Phil and his wife, you can know that you have eternal life.

In John 10:28, Jesus says, “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.” Jesus promises to give eternal life to all who receive Him in faith. Why not receive that gift today?

This is Luis Palau.