““You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;”
(John 5:39 NAS95)
Of course, eternal life is something believers will enjoy in the age to come, but John had a unique understanding that eternal life was something that every believer possessed on the way to heaven, not just when they get there. In the verse above Jesus is telling them that you won’t find eternal life by studying the Scriptures, but eternal life is only in him. As a matter-of-fact, eternal life is being in union with the supernatural life of Jesus. Jesus said that he came we might have life and have it more abundantly. He is talking about his very life as our life. Eternal life is the free gift of God that Jesus accomplished for us in his finished work at the cross, where we died with him in his death, and were raised up with him in his resurrection.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
(Rom. 6:23 NAS95)
The abundant, supernatural life of Jesus is not something we need to beg God for, because as Christians it is something you already possess because you are in Christ.
1John 5:11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
1John 5:13 ¶ These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
I know that God honors our hearts when we cry out for “more.” He knows that we long to experience everything He desires for us. The truth is though, I believe he cries out for us to get “more.” You see, the “more” that we are crying out for is already ours in Christ, because the eternal life that Jesus carries, that we are in union with, is full of the “all” that Jesus is. I believe God desires for us to walk in “more” obedience, surrender, and childlike faith, so that we can manifest the “all” that we already possess in Christ, because in Christ we have eternal life, the very supernatural reality and resources of Heaven.