It's been a while since included an excerpt from Mom's Journal here. It's coming up to a year since she's was called home to the Lord. This was our first Thanksgiving without her, but she was remembered and missed. I am so thankful for the sense of family she gave to us and that we still carry on today. As I was saddened by her absence, the Lord reminded me Thanksgiving morning that she was now with Him, celebrating an eternal Thanksgiving.
Today's entry gives her thoughts and insights on being "Born Again." I am praying that it hits the hearts its meant to, that it opens them up for the Lord's loving presence to pervade. So here goes.
Born Again- a heavenly birth, a spiritual birth from above, our choosing a path to God.
An act by which God imparts spiritual life to one who chooses to trust Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:10 10 But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.
1 Corinthians 2:13-16 13 When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the Spirit, using the Spirit’s words to explain spiritual truths. 14 But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means. 15 Those who are spiritual can evaluate all things, but they themselves cannot be evaluated by others. 16 For,“Who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to teach him?” But we understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ.
John 3:3-5
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.” 4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?” 5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
vs3- Jesus said- Most assuredly unless one is born again, he cannot see the kidom of God.
vs5 Most assuerdly, I (Jesus) say to you, "unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God."
1 John 5:1-8
Faith in the Son of God
5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too. 2 We know we love God’s children if we love God and obey his commandments. 3 Loving God means keeping his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. 4 For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. 5 And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.
6 And Jesus Christ was revealed as God’s Son by his baptism in water and by shedding his blood on the cross—not by water only, but by water and blood. And the Spirit, who is truth, confirms it with his testimony. 7 So we have these three witnesses— 8 the Spirit, the water, and the blood—and all three agree.
5:1 ...believe that Jesus is the Christ is born of God...
5:5...he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
here Mom says to read it (the passage) in it's entirety in the Bible, I have included the passage here.
Understand that one who is born again: loves other believers, obeys the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.
Looks like Mom was laying out the Scriptures here. I am praying that they will find a home in the hearts of my reader friends here that don't know the wonderful plan of salvation and the invitation to eternal life and fellowship that the Father desires for us to experience with Him, our Creator. Her second entry on "Born Again" seems to go into her own thinking on it. I will enter it separately.
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