YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!
As you plan for the new year and make resolutions to prompt
changes in your life, it’s important that you know every perfect
plan, every perfect resolution, and every answer to life is in Jesus!
But you must take the first step. You must be born again!
What do I mean by “again”? In Genesis 1:26–27, it says, “Then God
said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the livestock, and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps in the earth.’ So, God created man in His own image: in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
When God created Adam, he became the father of the human race, God’s perfect creation. When Adam rebelled in the Garden of Eden, Adam was separated from God by his desire to act on his own and brought sin into the world. But God already had a plan in motion to overcome this, Jesus Christ. Jesus’ sinless life and death made it possible for God to offer forgiveness to all and the ability to return to our rightful place in God, a place of right relationship, a place of dominion. In the words of Jesus in John 3:3, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
Jesus was speaking of a spiritual rebirth. We don’t enter the Kingdom by living a better life, but by being spiritually reborn.” So you must be born again! Apart from Jesus, we are all condemned in our sin (Romans
3:23). But through Jesus’s death on the cross, we have been given new hope and a right standing with God.
Roman 10:9–10 says, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.”
Our authority was taken in the Garden of Eden through Adam; but it was given back through the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ! When you make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, God
miraculously transforms you into His son or daughter. Will
you come to Him today? Pray this simple prayer:
Jesus, I have tried to do things my way, but I have always fallen short.
Today, I confess You as Lord and believe in my heart that You died for my sins. Thank you for saving me. Now, Lord, I ask you to release the power of the Holy Spirit fully in my life, enabling me to walk in victory every day.