IN CHRIST IS LIFE
Christ & W ind & Man I just got back from a camping trip to Death Valley. One of the main purposes of this trip was to photograph a rather mysterious phenomenon at a place called The Racetrack. The Racetrack is 29 miles past the end of the paved road and the motorist that goes out there stands a chance of bang ing up his car a bit. I ruined the muffler and a fairly new tire on my first trip. The track itself is the dry bed of an old lake. It’s two miles across and perfectly smooth without even a weed growing. The phenomenon is that rocks up to 300 pounds have a way of moving across the lake bed leaving well-defined tracks. It’s pretty much of a mystery and to this day no one has ever proved what causes the rocks to move. The most widely accepted theory is that the wind does it but just how is not known. One night when Jesus Christ was on this earth a man came to Him with some questions that were pressing heavily upon his heart. This man wanted to come to God for forgive ness. Christ bluntly told him, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Mystified, the man asked, "H ow can a man be born when he is old . . . . How can these things be?” Christ said, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” Like the mysterious blowing of the wind is the work of the Holy Spirit in the rebirth of a man’s spirit. W e can never explain it; never fully understand it. But we can experience it. Then Christ explained to this man who came to Him by night just how to experience the new birth of the spirit. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life . . . . He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” Now the man had his answer. He couldn’t fully under stand the meaning of a spiritual rebirth but he could under stand and obey the words of the Son of God who stood before him. And so it is today for every seeking heart who longs for forgiveness and assurance and peace. " But as many as re ceived him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.* — L. H.
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