Soul Snack 9/41 ... Evening Class
The ambitious, the arrogant and the correctly confident seek to deliver change. Such actions may express the intentions of so many others. Such actions may also raise the opposition of many. Their boldness can precede them, their ambition unassailable.In John 2 Jesus has 're-potted' how the Jews should understand 'temple'. In the popular conversation after dark with Nicodemus (John 3) Jesus now tackles 'salvation'. Despite His learned visitor, Jesus is not daunted (was He ever?) and establishes that rising to heaven is of no human achievement. No one may so live that salavation is owed to them. Jesus becomes boldly the eternal change agent.
In conversation with this inquiring pharisee, Nicodemus, it becomes patently obvious that life's great struggle is to receive the spiritual correctly. This is the change that Jesus wants to bring. He lifts his highly educated thinking above the carnal to the cosmos.(see vs 3-6)
In fact the physical is unable to receive the spiritual without spiritual intervention. Spiritual intervention is to be prepared for.
Nearly a millenia prior to this nocturnal conversation, the Psalmist knew so well how to prepare to receive the spiritual correctly ...