Questions!

Monday, June 4
John 3:4-5 (The Message)
"How can anyone,' said Nicodemus, 'be born who has already been born and grown up?  You can't re-enter your mother's womb and be born again.  What are you saying with this 'born-again' talk?    Jesus said, 'You're not listening.  Let me say it again.  Unless a person submits to this original creation - the 'wind-hovering-over-the-water' creation, the invisible moving the visible, a baptism into a new life - it's not possible to enter God's kingdom."  
     Such questions!  And such answers!  No wonder the people were confused.  But Jesus backed up all his words with actions - which made the words believable, if not understandable.
     "Born of water and spirit" - born from above - what God creates anew in our physical body is not comprehendable to most of us.  We only touch the surface of what is possible within us through the  power of that rebirth.
     Nicodemus was a well-respected Jewish scholar.  He was expected to know all the answers.  But he came to Jesus with questions.  And Jesus patiently answered.  Over and over.  We don't have to feel it is wrong to question God.  God will answer as much as we can understand.  Even those who seem like they have all the answers, our religious leaders today, have questions too!  We should ask questions!  We should want to learn more.  We should want to understand.   It means we are in dialogue with God and that is always a good thing!