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My imagination is fused with devotion and love in non-traditional way. I feel that it will be better expression if I write them in ‘direct-speech’, in Christ’s words _
“I had served my Lord and ‘prepared meal’ for humanity as a whole ‘with love and care.’ The time was not ripe, therefore men refused to accept it. Why should I blame Judas and Harold in particular? Without disillusionment and despair and with ‘calm of mind and all passions spent’, I offered the meal to my beloved Lord with supreme certitude. By offering, I became free from entire burden of responsibility and ‘the heavy and weary weight of all unintelligible world.’ – (wordsworth’s phrase). The weight of the body and the cross was also lightened. So I mounted the Calvary with ease. I deeply realized while dying–
‘My Task Master’s State is kingly
Thousands at His bidding speed,
And posted over land and ocean without rest.’ - Milton
If my presence on the earth is needed,
My father may call me back. His Wisdom excels,
The total wisdom of the world.’’
It librates me and I am a child again,
Smiling in the lap of my beloved Father.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,(#509) he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Note. Jesus is saying, Truly, truly, Except a man be born from above he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Born again, another {an'-o-then} Strong's {509}
anlwqen
Definitions:
from (507) (alnw); from above; by analogy from the first; by implication anew: — from above, again, from the beginning (very first), the top.
Note. In other words born from above. You were and now you born again from the first time of the beginning. Just keep going to the 13 verse and you will understand.
This verse is an explanation of Genesis 1:26 where God said "let us make man." It works this way. God is one entity, but He has three distinct personalities or self identities. Humans have similar capacities, that is, we can be known as several different persons to several different people. So in this way, we are made in the "image of God." This means that the "us" in Genesis 1:26 is a reference to God's three distinct personalities.
Paul knew and understood this when he said that he was chosen by God to be an apostle of Jesus Christ; that is, God is the entity and Jesus is the personality or self identity through whom God chose him. Then Paul said in verse 3 that the Father has blessed us by sending Jesus to die for us. In other words, the Father is the personality through whom God made the decision that He would come to us as the Son.
Let's say it like this. Paul is simply explaining that great eternal truth that God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in His dealings with us. And that the way God speaks and interacts with us humans is through his personality Jesus, all under the direction of His personality the Father.
God bless you!