Un Om Nou (2). Criza nașterii (Ioan 3:13)

Sunday 7th of September. A new man (2).
The Crisis of Birth (John 3:13) 
Christ spoke to Nicodemus not of the fleshly birth, but of that spiritual regeneration of which no man could predict the course or method, any more than they could tell the course of the night breeze that rose and fell and whispered fitfully outside the little house where they sat.
It must be a birth by water and by the Spirit, a purification and a renewal - an outward symbol and an inward grace, a death onto sin and a new birth onto righteousness.
A son of Abraham, a Rabbi, a zealous keeper of the Law - could he need that new birth?
The shelter of midnight for a deed which was not a deed of darkness, needing to be concealed, but which was indeed a coming to the true and only Light...

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