John 3:5 Jesus answered, I tell you the truth, no one can enter the Kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. God is a Spirit. If you only understand human bodies, it will be difficult for you to realize that you are an eternal being yourself. You live in a body; but, when that body dies and decays, that doesn’t have any effect on you being able to continue to exist.

When Jesus talked about people dying, He frequently said they were sleeping. Dying isn’t ceasing to exist; dying only means separation. When you die, you are just being separated from your body. You, as an eternal being, continue to live on somewhere else. That continuing to live somewhere else is the thing that needs to concern you. Some people believe that they can control their eternal destiny by what they choose to believe; however, that is overwhelmingly wrong!

Just because your body only lasts for a short time doesn’t mean that you do. You may have assumed there wasn’t any life after death. Or, it may have been something you haven’t spent much time thinking about. God is using your struggles with a life-problem to help you start considering an eternally important issue. If you spend eternity with God, you will have to join His family and Kingdom now; you will not be able to make that decision after you die.

The tremendous benefits that come from you making a decision to be born again now is, Jesus teaches you how to be incredibly successful here while enhancing your eternal life. The main reason you are suffering now is because of how you are treating yourself, other people, and God’s plan. Once Jesus helps improve your behavior, the way you treat most people will be the way they will start trying to treat you. The way you create win/win solutions will produce friends.

You understand that unless your house is connected to water and electricity, you won’t get those benefits. Certain prayers connect you to God in various ways. You have been connecting to Jesus by inviting Him into training you about being born again and becoming God’s child, a member of His family, and a citizen of His Kingdom. Now you want to go beyond learning about these things and learn how to get them.

Up until now, you have been applying yourself to learning about how to get Jesus’ help with your personal problems. Once you are convinced and feel comfortable with Jesus’ teaching, you must apply the connection to Jesus. You must ask Him to empower you to be born again. It is always your decision as to what you get from Jesus. It is true that you must follow His requirements, rules, and laws for being born again. But, it still requires you asking Him for it.