John 3:8 (The Message)
8 You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it's headed next. That's the way it is with everyone 'born from above' by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.
The wind is predictably unpredictable. It blows where it will. We do not control it nor can we always predict it.
So is the Spirit of God. It blows where it will. We do not control it nor can we always predict it. For as Paul says, (Rom (9:15b) “(God) will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and compassion on whom He will have compassion.”
God loves whom God will - and that includes those I would exclude. It is the world God desires to save, not just us. As those who believe in Christ we are to live as those who are led by the Spirit of God, which means we will not stand idly by as injustice seeks to have its way in our world. We will, as Lewis said, get in “good trouble”.
God sent Jesus into the world not so we could gloat over being children of God but so we could say, God is for you too, whether you know it or not. To be born again is to face the truth that God loves all people and it is to face this truth over and over and over again, until it finally sinks in.
The Triune God is
“The Lover, The Beloved,
and the Love who binds all
together in One.”
Augustine
Prayer thought for the day: “Lord, blow over me with the wind of love that I might be born from above and make a difference in someones life today.”
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