BORN (AGAIN) THIS WAY
“For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.”
Eph 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
When you and I were conceived, everything we would ever become was in our microscopic being. Hard to wrap your brain around, isn’t it? God fashioned us, exactly the way, He in His sovereignty wanted us to be, in our mother’s womb. Our features, our gender, our hair, eye and skin color, body type, etc., etc., were all determined by the Lord…and we were born that way! If you haven’t discovered it, by now you know that I am a creationist. Yes, I believe God formed or created us in our mother’s womb, unapologetically!
It is identically the same when Holy Spirit unites with our spirit in our inner being, we are a new creation, we are born again. Once we are truly born again, our new nature begins to present itself. Something supernatural has happened in our hearts and the nature of Jesus begins to grow in us and out from us. Perhaps the first thing that begins to be felt within us, is His love. We are amazed by the love that we are now waking up to and we begin to desire to show it to others. Why? We were born-again this way! Our fleshly sin tendency begins to be repulsive to us. Why? We were born again this way! We desire more and more to be good and to do good. Why? Because we were born again this way! We begin to hate sin and love righteousness. Why? Because we were born again this way! We are ever growing in desire to love God and love people. Why? Well by now, you know!
Acts 10:38 "how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
Why was Jesus anointed with power and why did He go around doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil? Because, He was begotten of the Father this way! Believers too, have been born again this way! May the nature of Jesus born in us, prevail over us and work through us, to make our Father glad (glorified, Matt. 5:16) and incidentally the devil mad, today and everyday! We’ve been born again to live this way! HALLELUJAH!
Every blessing!
—Tom