Earthly

"Nicodemus said to him: How can these things be?" John 3:9.

But first: What's Nicodemus asking - what things? Ah, well, he's asking about being born again. He's not asking the mechanism for new birth, like, how do you do it? Jesus said it's a spiritual birth - water and Spirit. Born of the Spirit is to be free to blow from here to there and back again and earth-bound persons don't get it. But Nicodemus is asking: Why is it that a new birth is required? Jesus says: You're the teacher, you should have gotten this a long time ago. Jesus says, You still hear me talking about earthly things, the easy stuff, and you don't get it - how are you going to get it if I talk about the sky things? The hard stuff. In order to get the spiritual stuff, the things of God's kingdom, the sky kingdom, you've got to start over, be born again, born spiritually, to get spiritual stuff. That's why.

With a brother or sister today we humbly recognize our own new start, newbies in Christ. Like newborn babies we drink spiritual milk to grow up to salvation. And, together, we give thanks to God.