Easter Changes Everything
Easter Changes Everything
The Old Testament book of Numbers is a book filled with laws, Regulations not to be just an imposition upon the people, but instructions to follow.
They were told to always remember the commandments of the Lord our God, to treasure them, apply them.
These rules covered the sins of man, and the sins are many.
(Matthew Henry Commentary)
"The weakness of the Law through the flesh. The law discovers sin, but could not destroy it, checked it but could not conquer it."
Romans 8:3 "For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh."
We have always been unable to keep the law. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Yet all who believe in the Easter story, (Jesus dying on the cross for our sins and His resurrection) can be born-again.
Start again, and never to be the same again.
All the born-again get new hearts and new minds, reborn as citizens of a new Kingdom.
There is no other way to actually be a Christian. If you want to be a true Christian, you must truly be born again.
There is no other overwhelming feeling than caring for a newborn.
With two precious grandbabies due to be born in the next months, I am once again struck with the fact that there is absolutely no way a newborn would live without someone caring for their needs.
Ann Voskamp likens our spiritual rebirth to a newborn.
"Like a newborn babe keeps looking for the face looking for her, so every soul know it has been reborn when, in a world of distractions, it keeps looking toward the Father, seeking the Father's smile, meeting the Father's smile with wild delight. Our home is in His eyes.
Like a newborn, knowing she's dependent on her caregiver for everything that will keep her truly alive, you know you're reborn when you keep reaching to attach to your Father, looking where He looks in the world, talking like He does, imitating what He does.
Just as no person ever controlled how or when they were born, no person controls how they are born again; being born again is a work of God alone.
Until next time. Pam
