The way into this new life is through an experience called salvation. The big thing is, Jesus has to help you want salvation. And, since salvation is probably something you don’t know much about, it will be hard for Him to help you want it. Suppose you want to buy a new coat; there are some steps you are going to have to go through in order to accomplish that. You will have to find stores that sell coats, pick the store you want to shop in first, travel where it is, go into the store, and then find the kind of coats you are interested in.

You don’t want to buy a store; but you still have to go to a store to buy a coat. You may not think you want salvation; but, you need to get it in order to get the answers to your issues with life. Inside of the salvation experience are the benefits Jesus provides. It is the “store” where they are.

You may be going through things you don’t understand. There are things people are doing to you that are hurtful. And, there are things you are doing to them that are hurting them. Why do people do these things to each other? There are thoughts and emotions inside you that influence how you treat yourself and other people. Those thoughts and feelings are just waiting for someone to do something to you that you either like or don’t like. When that happens, you react.

You face financial, relational, emotional, physical, and spiritual problems that you don’t know how to get solved. The problem is, you have those problems because of the “system” you used to react to financial, relational, emotional, physical, and spiritual issues. If Jesus helps you react differently when you face these things, those problems will go away and better things will come.

Jesus is taking the information and prayers you prayed yesterday and is building on them. To do that, He is giving you an example, from the Bible, of a person like you. He too was trying to get his life going in the best direction. He was suffering with a lot of problems just like you. And, like you, he decided that his best way to get his problems solved was to go to Jesus!

Like you, a man named Nicodemus, decided to give Jesus a chance to work on his life. He went to see if he could get some answers that would head him in a better direction. This man had been studying all kinds of books and had been following all kinds of people’s advice and was still feeling an emptiness down inside him. So, he decided to let Jesus explain what kind of help He was offering. And, like you, him deciding to go to Jesus was the best decision he ever made.

Since everything Nicodemus had tried hadn’t helped him get the meaning, purpose, and rules to life, he could have given up. Since he had tried very hard to find the answers and had lived a long time, he could have decided that Jesus probably couldn’t help him either. But, he didn’t! He went to Jesus and found out that the problem was because he was looking in the wrong direction.

The record of Nicodemus’ life is in the New Testament (the second part of the Bible) in John (the fourth book of the New Testament). His life can really help you see you aren’t alone in your search for life’s answers. Allow his situation help you see similarities that all humans go through.