You’ve Seen the Natural World
Now See the Super Natural One
February 17 2025
We love Mother Nature. My wife and I go down to our State Park by the river often. Just the same, we want to talk about having found something beyond the Earth’s loving but temperamental embrace…
Now, my personal history is a bit different than my wife’s: I was a child of the 60’s & 70’s, a pothead and War Protester. Right or wrong is not what this essay is about, but I want to tip my hat to the music of those days.
Young people were seekers and questioning the unfulfilling status quo. Many of the paths we tried lead nowhere, but the music often displayed very interesting and rather existential — if not also transcendental ideas.
Knowing people take away different understanding of songs that were created during those days of change, I still want to share it:
NEW 📀 No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature — The Guess Who “Live” {Stereo}
So, now onward and upward…
There is an interesting story recorded in the Bible which was quite surprising to His disciples who didn’t quite know what to make of it. (Of course, there were many other surprises while they were following along with Jesus!)
Now, in the Jewish culture at the time and against the religious norms of that era, Jesus was talking to a woman in public, and he went well beyond even that, seeing how she was a Samaritan woman! Both were anathema in Jewish culture back then,
I’m going to leave out most of the story to keep to the single point I will be trying to make…
Jesus was teaching the Samaritan woman a lesson applicable to today’s Christian congregants, they”worship what {they} do not know; we worship what we do know…”Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” — John 4:21–24, New International Version (NIV).
Later on, Jesus was conversing with the Pharisee, Nicodemus, and teaching him about the need to be born again:
How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” — John 3:4–8, NIV.
What I have underlined in these two excerpts is a fact of Biblical Christianity which dovetail snugly together, describing this beautiful idea: We can have a dynamic personal relationship with God through becoming twice born.
It seems to me that this shows how essential it is after we come into this world, we have to become born a second time to see the next.
Yet, this event does not occur unless a person gets serious about God, Jesus, and the Bible. Still, there is His promise, reflected in the three Scripture verses below:
“All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.” — JOHN 6:37, NIV.
“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.” — Matthew 7:7, New Living Translation. (Note: I have used this translation because it reflects the proper verb tense.)
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” — John 3:16–17, NIV.
