Born Again

The Holy One calls me this morning and I open my eyes and ears to yet more of an understanding of His ways.  He is no respecter of persons and I am so thankful for the wisdom He so liberally provides for all who seek Him without Him finding fault.

God knows I am a flawed vessel, yet, He patiently leads me into all truth by His Holy Spirit.  My human mind is so dull and resistant at times.  I get a little glimmer of profound truth then lose it to earthly distractions.  But the Lord is patient with me and He never gives up.  We are each on our own unique journey with Jesus.  He has the road map for our lives and will get us to our ultimate destination, but not via the same roadways that He is taking other believers.

In this personal and unique relationship with our Savior, we all get truth at different times and in different ways.  I marvel at how long it takes for me to find a specific truth that comes so easily for others.  Yet, the Holy One never condemns me.  He patiently brings it around again and again until it finally clicks.

So what was the grand "revelation" to my heart and mind again?  The message of what it means to be "born again" and why that catch phrase is so significant.

Jesus said, when speaking to Nicodemus in  John 3:3-8. "I tell you the truth, no one can see the Kingdom of God unless he is born again"  and again He repeated and said, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to Spirit.  You should not be surprised at my saying, you must be born again."

The Holy One explains it to my own heart and mind this way:  "When you were born in the flesh  under the dominion of a sin legacy, you were incomplete.  However, you were born with a Spiritual potential that required a choice. 

Created to be "in the image" of God , Who is a Three  Person Trinity, at our flesh birth, the Third Person of the Trinity was not dispersed within.  There is a hole, a void, a place in your heart for God, but it is vacant at your flesh birth.  At birth you are flesh and soul but missing the Spirit.

Over the course of every human life will come the opportunity and responsibility to choose to be in relationship with the Creator.  For those who choose relationship with God, the Father through the only Savior, God, the Son, Jesus, the experience of being "born again" happens and the Holy Spirit enters to complete the unity of that relationship."

I see clearly that we must be born again, whereby the Holy Spirit enters in to complete us and enabled to live to the fullness of our potential in the image of our God. We are brought into His image by the indwelling Third person of the Trinity, missing at our flesh birth.

Our flesh birth is temporal and suitable for all that is only temporal.  But when we are born again of the Spirit, everything about our being is redeemed so that we can "see" and "enter" the Kingdom of our God.

To our God be all the Glory.  Heavenly Trinity, earthly us: the unifier is the Holy Spirit who enters when we are "born again".  Jesus came in the flesh to model this truth.  Holiness wrapped in humanity, Jesus represents the individuals we can become if and only as we are "born again".

May we each become the dwelling place of Holiness as we come to faith in Jesus and find ourselves truly "born again".

The Spirit is calling.  Can you hear Him?