Born Again
by David B Severy on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 3:15pm ·
To be "born" means to be carried. A woman who is pregnant bears or carries the child. Then it is birthed by her into the world on the "birth"day. In a sense God is pregnant with all who live on earth now. He does however have much more to say about who He will bear into heaven. Being born again or anew is also said to be "born from above." The thing I take away from all this is that we are truly in the hands of a great and awesome God, who loves us dearly, yet requires that we repent and believe. Life is probationary, and reprobation is a sad reality and hell is a real place. That is why we need to be desperate before God for His mercy and grace.
Bob Mumford said we get saved this way: God chases us down (in His mercy and love), puts His foot on our neck, and the next day we declare "I found God." LOL, it is so true. We are very self absorbed and never see or so easily forget or that God made us and saves us for His purpose and pleasure. Revelation 4:11. The implication is that if we do not please Him for His heavenly pleasure and purpose He has prepared a place for us apart from Him. Being born again is a great privilege, the greatest. It is God’s purpose and pleasure to give us our second birth, we dare not deny Him.
A problem is that we have let born again people and not born again people determine what we believe about being born again (people). Instead we should look to the scriptures and the Holy Spirit to instruct our faith. John Ch. 3 is really very plain that we must be born again. It remains for us to learn it of Him who said it is so.
