[Nicodemus seeks the Christ. John 3:1-13]
My name is Nicodemus; I’m a ruler of the Jews.
As one of the
town’s Pharisees, this Jesus not good news!
My colleagues all
despise him for he’s doing what we should,
He’s preaching of
the kingdom but in terms of present good.
And as Jacob
fought his angel that put him out of joint,
The miracles that
he’s performed have put to us his point!
I’d like to go to
meet him, and try to gain insight,
But without my
fellow Pharisees , - will have to go at night!
I steal away in
darkness so to find this holy man
I’m not sure where
I’ll find him, but know somehow I can.
I feel I’m drawn
towards him and my seeking’s not in vain,
I have an urgent
question, and I know that he’ll explain.
“Rabbi, thou art come from God, in everything you do
It shows the wonders God has wrought for He’s at one
with you.”
His answer takes
me by surprise. I find it very odd:
“Except a man be born again, he cannot see my God”
I’m so glad that I
came alone, for his message leaves me cold:
“How can a man be born again when he’s already old!
Can
he enter the second time into his mother’s womb?
Be born again! Must I die first/ Be brought back from
my tomb?”
There is a gulf
between our thoughts. In patience he replies;
“I’m talking of the Spirit, friend, you must lift up
your eyes!
Be born again, baptised as new. Let Spirit be your
key.
Release the lock, reach out your hand. The kingdom here is free!
What’s flesh is flesh. It can’t get in. Let loose the
Adam dream.
Be
born again. Repent in thought. Let Spirit be your theme!”
I feel his love as golden words unlock a
future bright,
For I must drop
all sense of self if I’m to see the light.
Be born again!
What huge command! It says to start afresh!
And in his love I
glimpse this truth: the Spirit’s real, not flesh!
The Master speaks
and now I hear, my thought in joy awakes:
“The wind can blow, and when it does you hear the
sound it makes:
But
where’s it from, where will it go? There’s no man that can tell.
And everyone that’s Spirit-born is just the same as
well.”
I still have
doubts: despite his words, do I have faith to see?
I
grasp the point, but have to ask, just how can these things be?
“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe me not,
What hope have ye to understand
what is the heaven-slot?”
Once more his
words embrace my thoughts and lift me to new height.
For in God’s
kingdom there’s no flesh, where Spirit is all might.
My
name is Nicodemus, have you heard my latest news?
I’ve met this
prophet Jesus Christ, - he’s ruler of
the Jews!
I’m born again of
Spirit: and like Jesus pure and mild,
I’m fashioned by “Our
Father”, God, and witness I’m His child!
Forsake all flesh and be baptised, let
Spirit shine through you,
Reflecting God, we follow Him, and witness
what is true.
God is a Spirit: and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24
The Spirit itself beareth witness with or spirit, that we are the
children of God. Romans 8:16
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