Born Again

Philippians 3:20-21 For our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
 
WHEN you hear someone say, “I’m a born again Christian.” Or they say, “I’m born again in Jesus.” (Maybe you have said that.) what do you think? Do you get excited? Do you celebrate, rejoicing in Jesus? You do realize “born again” speaks of God birthing you out of a life dead in sin into your eternal life in Heaven, don’t you?
    Oh, to be born again is a joyous new life! You have gained, as Paul says, “citizenship in Heaven”. You are birthed through the power of the Holy Spirit into a new life covered in Jesus’ sacrificial blood from the cross. You have risen from your death in sin to a resurrection of new life in Jesus’ salvation.
    Born again, you have the right to send out new birth announcements proclaiming God’s creative, resurrection power has come to your soul forevermore. How wondrous it is that just as you had no choice to be born, God has chosen you to be His own, born anew. Yes, indeed, it is time to celebrate.
    As a father takes his child home from the hospital, one day your Father in Heaven will send His Spirit to take you to your eternal home. Born again, you are secure in God’s home as your name is written in the Book of Life. Your body one day will be transformed to a spiritual body, and you will take your place in the Kingdom of God forever.
    Have you been “born again”? Have you confessed your sins to Jesus? Have you said to Jesus as did Thomas, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)
 
Joy Link: New birth to eternal life is in Jesus Christ.