Born From Above

At an evening meeting with Nicodemus, Jesus told him, "You must be born from above."  (Jn 3:7b)
In these intervening days between Easter and Pentecost, the Gospels, besides telling the Resurrection story from the experiences of different disciples, also do "prep work" for the coming of the promised Holy Spirit, the Advocate.  Nicodemus takes Jesus literally, trying to imagine some sort of heavenly rebirth.  Jesus is talking, rather, of a birth, an entrance into new life in the Holy Spirit...meaning that the Spirit actually dwells within us, filling us with God's love and power that lift us to a level of existence above that of the purely human.  We sense God's care and presence in our lives that make the impossible possible, and the ordinary, inexplicably miraculous, was we see things turn out far better than we ever could have anticipated of planned ourselves. It's a new level of living in faith and trust that are beyond human explanation or calculation. "The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." (Jn 3: 8)
Bro. Rene