Being Born Again

John 1:12,13 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

Becoming children of God is a very great honor that nobody in the world can earn. The world is falsely teaching that every human is a son of God. But that’s not true. Only those who receive Jesus, and believe in Him have the right to become the children of God. We should see that believing in Jesus gives us the right and not fully make us children of God. This right makes us children of God who are actually born, not of the will of the flesh or the will on man, but of God. This is a wonderful experience that God will give us where we are treated not like adults but like children giving a new perspective of the whole world around us. That is life that God provides, with authority that we are children of God.

1 Peter 1:3 explains that God’s mercy helps us be born again to a living hope to an imperishable, undefiled and unfading inheritance. We should see that this hope and right is brought to us only through the mercy of God and not because we earned it. The bible calls this as living hope because every other hope takes us to a dead end. We should see this as a hope of life. Being born to a living hope shows that we were totally blind or dead to what life actually is. But when God was merciful, we became new beings with new ambitions or new intentions in our lives. This is called being born again.

In the same chapter verses 23,24 explain how all flesh could wither like grass unless it is born of the living word. Every food that we take in or nutrient that we consume are all perishable. Everything that we earn will be lost but our seed is the word. But if we use the word of God as the seed from which we start living with the qualities of the same plant, this plant becomes completely imperishable.

God promises a new beginning to every one of us where all our commitments and sins of our old self is completely forgiven and we get a chance to live as new children without any guilt. We read that in 2 Corinthians 5:17. From verse 18 we can see that we are no longer away from God but reconciled kids in front of God. This opportunity is wonderful and great for any person to ignore. But we continue ignoring Jesus. This reconciliation was given to us with a cost of the cross. Verse 19 shows the seriousness of God’s grace towards us. If God is not counting our trespasses and asking us to come towards Him.

With this context, if we read John 1:13, we are not born of blood, of will of man or will of flesh. God explains how children are born either by fleshy desires or somebody needed children desperately. This birth is completely disregarded and God does not see this person as a living being. But if we receive Jesus Christ, we are born of God.

In John 3:7, 8 our Lord explains Nicodemus not to worry about how to be born again. We do not know how the wind goes, so is the Holy Spirit’s product would start from nowhere and end in places where nobody can expect. He will if we submit ourselves to the Spirit.