COMING ALONE

We must Come Alone to enter the Kingdom of God. When Jesus confronted Nicodemus about this he told him, “Unless one is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” and “Unless one is born of water and Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:2,5). If one cannot see, one cannot enter.

Seeing and entering are the beginning actions, not the beginning. The beginning is to recognize that it is ‘one’ or the individual who must respond. In other words, it is a single person who sees and enters. It is not a crowd or group. It is always an individual act of recognition and obedience. Nearly everyone finds their sense of identity in a group of some kind, churches, memberships, political parties, labor unions, lodges, nationalism, the military, or the gang on the corner. Now, it is even easier to identify and connect with ‘others’ electronically without ever needing to meet ‘face to face’ for that identity. One of the great missing elements of our society is that we see little individuality and so much collective action and thinking. It is this ‘herd mentality’ that keeps many outside the Kingdom. Seeing and entering are acts of individual choice and we must ‘come alone.’

“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” Jesus