Today is my 53rd birthday and I thank God for another year. Another year to get it right; another year to do better in honoring Him; another year to be a better husband to a wonderful wife; just another year. We know that we are not promised another year, but God's grace and mercy are sufficient.
But what I think about is not the fleshly happiness of another numerical birthday, but the spiritual joy of the rebirth that God afforded me. I think about what Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:3 (NLT): Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God." Nicodemus was bewildered because he was thinking in the natural, in the flesh. John 3:4 (NLT): "What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?"
I thank Jesus for saving my life and offering me an opportunity for inclusion into the kingdom of God. The birthday I celebrate today is wonderful, but the rebirth I received the day I brought God into my life and Jesus into my heart is the greater of the two.
But what I think about is not the fleshly happiness of another numerical birthday, but the spiritual joy of the rebirth that God afforded me. I think about what Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:3 (NLT): Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God." Nicodemus was bewildered because he was thinking in the natural, in the flesh. John 3:4 (NLT): "What do you mean?" exclaimed Nicodemus. "How can an old man go back into his mother's womb and be born again?"
I thank Jesus for saving my life and offering me an opportunity for inclusion into the kingdom of God. The birthday I celebrate today is wonderful, but the rebirth I received the day I brought God into my life and Jesus into my heart is the greater of the two.
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