Daily Devotional

Yesterday we celebrated Christ’s resurrection. Without question, it is the most significant day of the Christian calendar. But now that the celebration of the resurrection is past, it leaves us to ask ourselves, “Am I an ‘event’ Christian or a ‘process’ Christian?”
Kingdom living is not an event; it’s a process that begins with a conversion experience. Conversion involves transformation. Spiritual conversion comes from having had an experience with Jesus that produces a change.
The call for rebirth is a call for conversion, for regeneration. If we would follow Jesus, we be committed to spiritual conversion. This commitment begins with changed minds. We must have changed minds about sin, self and God. This is Jesus’ point to Nicodemus: “Despite what you may have been taught or what you may have decided on your own, you can’t achieve righteousness unless you accept Me on my terms.”
New birth produces wonderful things for us in life; it prepares us for citizenship in God’s Kingdom; it leads us to healing and forgiveness; it saves us from eternal separation from God. And when that happens, we will see God in entirely new ways.
When we’ve been born again, God’s Word takes on new meaning. We can’t expect the world to be convicted by the Word until the born-again Church has been convicted by the Word. We need to be a part of a teaching ministry, where the Word is made relevant to our daily living. We need to struggle with the Word. We need to struggle with, “As I have loved you so you are to love one another (John 13:15).” We need to struggle with, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors (Matthew 6:12).” We need to struggle with, “First take the log out of your own eye so that you can clearly see the speck in your brother’s eye (Matthew 7:5).” We need to struggle with, “Do to others as you would have them do to you (Matthew 7:12).” If we would be a part of Christ’s kingdom, then His Word must take on new meaning.

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