Be Still And Know

READ: 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 NLT 'So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!' I’m sure you can think of many moments in life when suddenly everything changed. Your first day at school might spring to mind, or your wedding, or the birth of your children, or when you started your first job, or when you moved into a new house. From that moment everything looked slightly different. But those moments are as nothing compared with the complete change which happens when we become Christians. No part of life is left untouched. Everything looks different. Jesus told Nicodemus, one of the Jewish leaders, that he had to be born again. I don’t think that Nicodemus was playing games with Jesus when he showed incredulity at what Jesus was saying. Jesus’ words sounded like nonsense to him. How