Being Born Again
September 8, 2012
To be born again is, as it were, to enter upon a new existence,
to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles,
new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings,
new fears, new joys, new sorrows,
new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved,
new thoughts of God and ourselves and the world and the life to come...
And it is indeed a true saying that he who has gone through it is a new man, a new creature,
for old things are passed away --
behold, he can say, all things are become new!
~ JC Ryle
to have a new mind and a new heart, new views, new principles,
new tastes, new affections, new likings and new dislikings,
new fears, new joys, new sorrows,
new love to things once hated, new hatred to things once loved,
new thoughts of God and ourselves and the world and the life to come...
And it is indeed a true saying that he who has gone through it is a new man, a new creature,
for old things are passed away --
behold, he can say, all things are become new!
~ JC Ryle
