These words of Jesus to Nicodems, the first verse that many of us memorized in Sunday School, contain the truth in a form so simple that we sometimes fail to grasp the enormity of what Jesus was saying about God, about God's kingdom, about Jesus and even life itself.
'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit', Jesus told Nicodemus, 'he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. - John 3:5-7 KJV
There is a world we cannot see, but we know is there. It lurks right next to us all of the time. Sometimes we catch a glimpse, sometimes it's hard to even imagine, but that does not change it's existence. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. - John 3:8 KJV
The most amazing thing about this spiritual world, this kingdom of God, this realm of the divine creator is that we have been issued an invitation, we have been invited in. It's like stepping through the back of the wardrobe door into Narnia. All we have to do is believe. Believe and the world, this earthly existence pales. Believe and there is more to life than we ever imagined. Believe and we are invited into the eternal world of the great I Am and his Son. Is that such a hard thing to do?
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