“Born Again”

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Because it is so frequently repeated, this phrase does not make much impression upon those who hear it. Nobody seems to think there are earthquakes and revolutions in it; but there are. Nobody seems to think it is a part of the “power of God and the wisdom of God”; but it is. Not the thunder that cracks and rolls through the mountains, not the summer storms that sweep across the earth, not the volcano and the earthquake, are for prodigiousness of power to be compared with this simple annunciation, “Ye must be born again.” Must? Take out that word, and say, with tears of gratitude, “We can be born again!” There is no other truth so full of hope as this.

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