Monday of the Second Week of Easter
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April 20, 2020This second Monday of Easter sparks us to think about human life. The average person is born, and then grows. As a child is growing, the child learns many things from parents, teachers, and experiences.
We continue to grow and learn and mature throughout our whole life. We tend to judge people‘s character by how much they seem to have learned or matured. Imagine if a 25 or 30-year-old in a career, preparing for marriage, was still on an elementary school level of life, we would deem them incapable of responsibility on an adult level.
Today Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be born again from above. Nicodemus, in his confusion, thinks he means natural birth. Jesus actually does mean natural birth but natural birth to the soul.
We must remember that human beings are both body and soul. When we are baptized, we are born in our soul into the Divine. Yet as surveys suggest, the majority of people in the world pray and live spiritually on a 6th to 8th grade level.
This would not fly with our physical life or our mental capabilities, therefore why do we allow it to be OK with our spiritual life. Jesus tells Nicodemus that we must be born again from above. But being born again is not enough, we then have to do all we need to do to continue to grow and mature in our spiritual nature.
Today let us reflect on being born again through our baptism and then confirmed in confirmation, and continue to grow and mature to the fullest extent that we are able spiritually, in our soul, so we may be responsible Christian’s here and in a great relationship with the Divine forever.
