Birthdays And Salvation
Twenty-three years ago, on the fourteenth of July, a bouncing chubby and tubby baby girl was born. Carmelle came out of her mother's womb crying as if she knew that it was a fallen world.
Tired, weary and exhausted, her mother looked at her with affectionate eyes. After much painful and grueling labor, finally the life in her womb has now seen the light of day.
It was all worth it---the physical agony, the excruciating pain, the effort that took much from her and all the thousand other things besides that came with her baby's birth. The baby had nothing to do with her own birth. She was the product of her labor.
In the same way, being born again or being saved is not the result of our own efforts. A sinner is born again and saved because of Another's effort, agony and labor, when He bore our sins on the cross.
Isa 53:11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied....For He shall bear their iniquities.
Come to the Savior and be born again!
