I Don’t Have To Understand How It Works…I Just Know It Does!

Father, despite our circumstances, and especially with so much beyond our control, I am grateful that You have a view of it all and I can trust You explicitly! All praise goes to You!  

John 3:3-8 (<<click here to read the passage)

Have you ever noticed how quickly kids pick things up? (No, not their dirty clothes!) But techy things. Video games. Computer stuff. Those kinds of things.

When Massey was little, his grandmother, whom he (and his cousins) calls MeMaw, was having a hard time with something on her computer. Massey, not necessarily a part of the conversation at the time, spoke up and said, “Just click on it, Memaw!”

It seems that for many of us, the older we get the harder it is to pick up new things. (I’ve not beaten Massey in a video game in years!)

Nicodemus was no exception. In John 3:3, when Jesus told him that unless he was born again, he wouldn’t be able to see the Kingdom of God. In Nicodemus’ mind that was new tech…it didn’t compute in his old tech mind. His response?

“How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” v4 _AMP

Jesus goes on to say,

That which is born of the flesh is flesh [the physical is merely physical], and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be surprised that I have told you, ‘You must be born again [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified].’ The wind blows where it wishes and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it is coming from and where it is going; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” vs6-8 _AMP

It is not a physical thing; it is a thing of the Spirit. Flesh can give birth to flesh but only the Spirit can birth spirit. It’s a God thing! You might as well try and understand the wind, Jesus says. You can see the results of the actions of the wind but there is no 100% sure way to know where it is coming from and where it is going. The Spirit working in us to bring about salvation works the same way. We can seek and see the results of it, but it is solely the Spirit’s work in our lives that brings about our salvation.

You might have to understand techy stuff for it to help you. I, for one, and so glad that I don’t have to understand how the Spirit works in my life…I just know He does! Amen!

Apr 5^th, 2021, Mon, 8:20 pm