PK’s Corner
June
2012
John 3:3 “Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one
can see the kingdom of God without being born from above”.
This verse and the verses that follow
run counter to the culture we live in today.
The world tells us that we are okay in our sin, and yet tries to sell us
something that makes us better. We are
told not to judge the lifestyles of others, and yet we see lives cut short
through drugs, alcohol, physical and sexual abuse. I think one of the great travesties in life
is when we are convinced that God accepts us the way we are and we don’t need
to be changed
What we overlook is that while God
created us good, we ruined that goodness with sin. This is not a popular notion in the world, or
in many of our churches. We are a marred
image of God and thus we are not okay.
But what must we do?
We must be willing to be changed. Notice I did not say be willing to change,
but be willing to be changed, for you see, we cannot change on our own. Only the creator can change us. We must be born again, only this time from
above.
Jesus was talking with Nicodemus, a man
who thought he was in good standing with God and this passage took the wind out
of his sails. It should be doing the
same thing to us.
In our sin state, we are not able to see
the kingdom. It is only after we have
looked upon Christ with the desire to be changed that we can know what God’s
love is all about.
The reality of the Christian religion is
this, unless we are willing to be changed through Christ, we can have nothing
to do with God.
Amen
