Karen has a birthday. She is a big girl now. Not so big as you perhaps, but she soon will be if she keeps on growing like that.
Karen’s Mother makes birthdays a happy time, because she is glad that Karen was ever born at all—glad that God sent her little girl to make their home happy. That’s why her birthday is a time of rejoicing. So is yours, perhaps, though we know there are some dear boys and girls who have no parents to love them or to rejoice because they are alive.
But your “born again” birthday is a cause for far greater rejoicing than your natural birthday! Are you born again? If so, then we are sure that you have a Father who loves you perfectly and who rejoices greatly because you are “alive” in His family. There are no neglected or unloved children in the family of God.
Are you born again? If so, then you have life from above, a life which will never die, joys that will never fade, a Father who will never cease to care for and nourish that new life He has given, a home in glory, and a glorified body yet, to come, without an ache or a pain. You have brothers and sisters in the Lord, too, whom you may love and help in many ways. What a glorious thing it is to be born again!
Our little girl has a cake and a balloon for her birthday, but it is not hard to guess that in a very few days’ time, she will not have either one. The cake will be eaten, and the balloon will be burst with a bang. But the joys of new birth last forever. Oh my reader, Are you born again? Have you personally accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour, trusting in His precious blood alone to take away your sins and make you fit for the glory above. Remember the Lord Jesus said,
ML 08/12/1951