Thursday
Read John 3:1-17
There was a Jewish leader named
Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. 2One night he
went to Jesus and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by
God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.”
3Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the
Kingdom of God without being born again.”d
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“How can a grown man be born again?”
Nicodemus asked. “He certainly cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a
second time!” 5“I am telling you the truth,” replied Jesus. “No one
can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. 6A
person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the
Spirit. 7Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be
born again.e 8The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear
the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is
going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
9 “How can this be?” asked
Nicodemus.
10 Jesus answered, “You are a great
teacher in Israel, and you don’t know this? 11I am telling you the
truth: we speak of what we know and report what we have seen, yet none of you
is willing to accept our message. 12You do not believe me when I
tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then,
when I tell you about the things of heaven? 13And no one has ever
gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven.”f
14 As Moses lifted up the bronze
snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted
up, 15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. 16For
God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not die but have eternal life. 17For God did not
send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its saviour.
Think
"...no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born
again." (Verse 3) Can you see the Kingdom of God? Can you see what God can do with you, with
the world you live in? Will you be a
part of this work that God has begun?
Jesus says you'll only see it if you are 'born again' or 'born from
above' - if you allow the Holy Spirit to give you new life.
Pray
Lord help me to be renewed in my sight and my understanding - let your
Holy Spirit give me new life, new sight, new thoughts.
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