When a child is born, that child’s main interest is its own comfort and well-being. Infants get into a literal rage when their needs are not met. So what does Jesus really mean when he tells Nicodemus that he must be born again? Does that mean kneeling at the altar and confessing what a sinner we may be and praying for our guilt to be removed?
Perhaps, but it could also mean that we are to put God first in our lives and look at our fellow human beings and all the world we live in with a more compassionate attitude. This doesn’t mean only feeling the compassion, but acting on it. To live in a more unselfish and less self-centered way and to serve others as we would like to be served.
The hymn we sometimes sing before communion says it very well. “All to you I now surrender, all to you I freely give. I surrender all.”
—Harriett Gill
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