In your school-days you worked over your problem and found the answer was not right. But when you found that it was wrong, you changed a figure here, another there; and when finally you could not make it come right you took your sponge and wiped it all out and said, "I am going to begin over again."
Now that is what Christ said to Nicodemus: "Begin over again as a child. Don't do it as an old man; begin to grow up into the childhood toward God, and then when it comes time to go to heaven you will simply go home."
I asked my little girl one day when she came home at noon, "Why did you come in here?" She opened her great eyes and looked at me; she did not know what I meant. I said, "Why didn't you go into the doctor's next door?" Finally she said, "Why, this is my home."
Yes, it is home; that is the reason you are going to heaven—you are going to your Father's home. It must be a home. You have to be a child of God if you wish to enter the Father's home.
There is not a man living who does not need this new birth. There are a great many men living to-day who need to have their lives turned back to the very source and to be born again into a real childhood, and fitted for the home that is in heaven. So I say it is one of the gladdest and most joyous things in the whole Gospel. To think of it, my friends, that a man can be born again! Think of it, that your life with all its blunders can be wiped out; that your sins can all be cast into the sea; that you can start all over again and prattle as God's child, and work as God's child, and finally go home, because heaven is your Father's house. Surely the story of the new birth is good news to the men and women of this day.—Dr. Alexander McKenzie.