The concept of being born again is gross. Can you imagine how messy that would be? But Jesus was trying to explain to us what it means to be a Christian. We were born the first time and we messed it up, so something had to be done. I don’t know about you, but I reckon up until the moment I was born, I was probably not selfish, I probably did not sin. Now admittedly after that, I went out of my way to mess things up. It all seemed to start, the minute other people got involved. I hated people taking my toys at kindergarten; I mean, what right did they have? Then things progressed when I started school and I got into a few punch ups in the play ground. It didn’t improve much at home as I became a teenager either; sometimes I was just grumpy with my parents, because they were my parents. College was much the same, as I did loads of stuff that was not what God would have me do. OK, so even with just these highlights, we can see that I messed up my first birth pretty quickly. So it was pretty obvious that I needed Jesus and the chance to be born again. Now, you might think you are different, but just in case you can see similarities between my life and yours, what are we to do about it? Well Jesus is pretty straight talking when he tells us the meaning of being born again in this passage. We must ask God to send his Holy Spirit into out lives so that we can have the rubbish we have done in the past wiped clean. We still have the same body, we still remember some of the rubbish that has gone on before, but we are forgiven by God because of what Jesus did. The same thoughts will often come into our minds, but we choose to act differently most of the time. More recycled then born again, but never the less cleaned by Jesus.
