Engaging with God

new birth and new life is what Jesus addresses in our scripture passage today

Nicodemus is apparently intrigued by Jesus and wants to know more about him; but he doesn't want to do this publicly , so he comes to Jesus at night. 

Jesus makes it very clear to Nicodemus that anyone, Jew or not, even a Pharisee, must be born again (or born from above.)

God loves us and seeks after us and is not satisfied until he has found us. And this love of God extends to all people – God loves the world.

While we were still sinners – lost and separated from God – God sent Jesus into the world to save us.

To believe in Jesus is to trust him with our very lives.

But the opposite is also true: there is no life apart from God, so those who do not share in God's life through Jesus don't have this life of the ages .