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Last week I began a series called we were meant to live…, because I believe that there is a voice, so to speak, whispering inside each of us, imploring us that we were meant to live for so much more, that we were designed to live a life of significance, a life that is extraordinary, a life that matters, and that this life is within reach.  I told you last week that Jesus taught that there is a quality of life known as eternal life, that is a level of living beyond what most experience in their day to day.  You see, to Jesus and his contemporaries, “eternal life” did not mean just life after death, but it was primarily a quality of life, something that one could begin to experience in the here and now and then would experience fully in the life to come.  And Jesus even went as far as to define eternal life as knowing God, having a relationship with Jesus.  At its core, the life of significance, the life you were meant to live, the life that the voice inside you is calling you to come up higher and experience, is found in a relationship with the God of the universe.  And, like any relationship, there are levels of knowing, depths of intimacy.  Knowing God is not a black and white thing.  Even if you sit here today and say, “yes – I get this.  I have a relationship with Jesus,” know that you have only begun to scratch the surface of eternal life, only started to experience what it means to know God.  The deeper your relationship with God, the more you will experience eternal life, and the greater the significance of your life will be.

Now, that may be a great place to begin, but it also raises a few questions if you think about it.  For example, how do you know God?  After all, He is invisible.  No one has ever seen God.  So how do you enter into this relationship with Him?  And before we even get into that, who does Jesus say that God is?  There are many versions of God out there, so who exactly is God?