Birth again
Last Updated on Thursday, 13 January 2011 09:26
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures”(James 1,18)
On the island of Pacific ocean the Christian missionary worked among natives. Many people listened to his hot evangelical sermon, and some of them accepted it by heart. One of the savages who have believed in Jesus Christ, more others penetrating into the new doctrine, wanted to have a talk with the missionary alone and came to his home.
«Whether you can explain to me, – he has told, – why I have now absolutely other thoughts and feelings, than before? After all you know, how I willingly listen to your sermons; but all the same before attracted me to habitual sinful life; now – all was changed. Nothing attracts me to a sin, and now with a great pleasure I read the Scripture. When my former companions try to entice me and to force to forget everything I learned from you, it isn't possible to them.
–«Tell, how do you explain yourself such changes?» – missionary has asked him.
–«I think, – but hardly I dare to state it, – that the Holy Spirit makes in me this change, averting my heart from a sin and involving in God».
His words breathed deep belief, and all his being, appear, has been got by awe. The new born Christian was right, as we see from the Bible: “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people” (Heb. 8,10).
The birth again is a merge of divine life to human soul. This change, or penetration, a divine nature in a human soul does us by children of God. The birth again is a new birth, and it informs us the new nature of Holy Spirit. Therefore we never can begin new life, we will not be born again, yet we will not accept the new nature. The Christianity is a divine life in heart of the person who was born again.
P.Shatrov