"Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
John 3:3
First a observation: Jesus does not say a non born again person can't enter heaven. As we have covered other places the kingdom of God is not a synonym for heaven, it is both a future and current reality.
That said this makes perfect sense, doesn't it? I truly believe that it does, because we have been going around with our current set of eyes and haven't seen the kingdom. We've been going around with our current ears and haven't heard the kingdom. We've been going around with our current taste buds yet haven't tasted the kingdom. We've been going around with our current skin and haven't felt the kingdom. Worse yet may be that we have been going around with our current heart and haven't loved the kingdom.
We aren't in need of a transplant, we're in need of a near-death experience in order to jumpstart the whole package again.
We don't need to begin life again as a unskilled infant, but we do need to look with new eyes, hear with new ears, taste with a new tongue, fell with new skin, and hear a new heartbeat of love. If that happens, Jesus tells us we can see the kingdom, we can experience it in the here and now. It's within us after all, trying to break through and if it does it will tear a hole right through us, which is exactly what we need.
Being born again really isn't about salvation for eternal life following our last breath. Being born again is about salvation for our very next breath and every one after that.
+ Have you been born again? if so how has it changed your sense of the kingdom?
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