Read John
3:1-17.
Nicodemus was a
very religious person. He was an expert in his religious views and one of the
religious leaders of the Jewish people. Yet he needed something else. He needed
a personal relationship Jesus. That is an important message for our generation.
It is not enough to be religious, even very religious. People need Jesus, not
just a belief system.
Nicodemus was logical. But sometimes it seems to us that God is not logical. We need to be careful that our religion does not put God in a box that is bounded and limited by our human understanding.
ReplyDeleteI think most of the people that have fallen away from churches and denominations have a problem with a specific belief system, and the rules of men, not necessarily a lack of faith or a lack of desire for relationship with God.
Our human systems are a way for our human minds to understand God. They are not God. We need to show people less of our religious logic, and more of our relational love.
In other words, maybe Nicodemus should have stopped at “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” :)
This passage is full of reminders that we must be born again and it is done by simply believing. I love 17 that states Jesus did not come to condemn the world, but to save it.
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