This will probably be the shortest “Catch” ever. But there is a reason for that. Shorter time to read leaves more time to think. And I want you all to think a lot about this.
OK, I’m going to ask you two questions…
Question 1: What did you have to do with your first birth?
Nothing?
Question 2: What did you have to do with your second birth?
Nothing?
You played no more part in being born again than you did being born. Nor can anyone make themselves born again any more than they could have made themselves born.
What is the significance of this? Your salvation and mine was New Covenant generated from the beginning. God did everything to start you off (and He will do everything to complete your new life). Or as we have come to say, “Everything from God; nothing from me.”
How is that for a new understanding of Grace?
I’d like you to spend some time thinking about this, and I would love to hear from you what you discover as you reflect on this amazing truth.
This seems to line up with John 6:44, where Jesus says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.” Naturally then, I want to ask, who are the ones who will be drawn? Perhaps Jesus answers this question a bit later on. He says in John 12:32, “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
– Paul