Some things just don’t make sense.
Gravity. How’s that work? Just because we’re on the outside, we’re being pulled to the inside? Huh? And another thing, how does the atmosphere not float away into space? Someone, an answer, please.
Then there’s magnetism. It’s invisible. Is it magic?
And radio waves. They’re shaking up our speakers and our radio’s not attached to wires anywhere.
That brings us to salvation. Just a few words, and a desire to change, and we become a completely different person? Nah. It can’t be as simple as that.
Jesus explains salvation in John 3:3-7.
“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.’
“Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?’
“Jesus answered, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ ”
Here’s what makes this magnificent. Jesus compares salvation to something every person is familiar with, birth.
Salvation has nothing to do with a changed physical body. This is a spirit thing, a thing of the heart, mind, and emotions.
We believe, and that changes us. We become different, from our desires to our plans to our attitudes.
The old man (what we once thought and desired) is washed away and the new man (our desire to become like Jesus) fills us inside.
We are reborn in Christ. Our salvation is made real through him.
Salvation makes total sense. We can’t see it, but the results are perfectly obvious. We behave differently on the outside because we are completely new inside.
Salvation is life changing. Today is your day to try it on for size.
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