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Scripture: John 3:1-15
Song: I Will Sing The Wondrous Story
Wouldn’t it be great if you could undo your past? Not the good, but the bad. Wouldn’t it be grand if you could remove your mistakes from your record? The truth is that you can. That’s what the new birth is all about.
Unbelievable, isn’t it? Incomprehensible! How can a man start again when he is old? The secret is not to live life over. That would just mean making the same or similar mistakes all over again. The point of the new birth is to make the man over again—not the outside of the man but the inside.
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” The changes indicative of the new birth pertain to a man’s spirit rather than his body so that this birth is not perceived in the same way as the birth of a child. We don’t see the wind. We see the evidences of its movements in the stirring of the leaves or the waving of a flag.
The spiritual newborn does not necessarily experience any changes in his physical constitution to indicate that the birth has occurred. But there are signs in the conduct and direction of the spiritual newborn that betray the change that has taken place within. There are new habits, a new diet, a new vocabulary, a new outlook—all products of the new birth. Folks say to him, “You’ve really changed!” Have they seen the change in you?
Jason Moore
