Jots and Tittles and other Random Things

Celebrating Birthdays

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Let's write about birth today!

Everybody (well, mostly) likes birthdays. Like milestones, they count the passage of time, and of rights. Age 5 is usually the start of kindergarten; about age 13 is the start of junior high and becoming a teenager. 18 is usually graduation and adult-hood; 21 is legal to drink, if so inclined. Then on the other side; 50 is 1/2 a century, 65 is Senior Citizen and possibly retirement, then 75? 80? 100? It usually depends on one's health and longevity DNA.

There is another birth, though, that isn't talked about a lot. It is being "born again" or having a "spiritual 'birth' day"

John 3:3 says this: Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.”

James 1:18 says: He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says this: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!

We should emulate Christ, and be "born again" so that we have a light in this dark world, and have eternal blessings in the life to come. Just my two cents