TWO INDIANS were beside the dying embers of a fire. One was a chief, the other a warrior. After a time of silence the warrior said to the chief, “I have been thinking of some beautiful words spoken by the Man whom the white men call Jesus.”
“Let me hear them,” said the chief. “As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” Luke 6:31.
“Impossible,” returned the chief. Rising from beside the fire, he began to pace to and fro. Then he said, “There is one way, and only one, in which that rule could be kept. If the Great Spirit who made man were to give him a new heart, then it might be done.”
The chief did not know then that this is just what God has done through Christ Jesus, for all who have faith to trust Him as their Saviour. They are “born again” — born of His Spirit (John 3:3, 6); they have a new life — eternal life (John 3:16); they have a new nature, for they are made “partakers of the divine nature” (2 Pet. 1:4); and they have a new Object—Christ Himself in glory, who is coming for them (Tit. 2:13).
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