:: Second Chance ::

John 3:1-21 and 4:4-26
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus
at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous
signs you are doing if God were not with him."

In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again."

"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's
womb to be born!"

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be
born again.' The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where
it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."

"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked.

"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? I tell you the truth, we speak of what
we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of
earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into
heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the
Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has
not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved
darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into
the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be
seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

John 4:4-26
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had
given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It
was about the sixth hour.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" (His disciples had gone
into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?"
(For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and
he would have given you living water."

"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are
you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks
and herds?"

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

"I have no husband," she replied.

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the
man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."

"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim
that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the
Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for
they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."

New International Version (NIV) Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society

SECOND CHANCE
John 3:1-21 and 4:4-26

I waited for the night time to see this famous teacher
to hear for myself what He might say,
and when I finally heard Him speak,
He said the strangest thing.
He said, “You must be born again.”

Are these the sayings of a mad man?
Or is there something I don’t understand?
How can a man enter the womb again?
But on my journey home, I thought how nice
it would surely be
to get a second chance at this life.

A second chance to finally get it right this time.
A second chance to start all over again.
To be guided by a wisdom not my own.
Like being born again.

Shame walked beside her, reminding her of the past.
The noonday sun exposed her, forcing her to the task.
She carried failures to the well but much to her surprise.
a conversation at the well would change her life.

She said, “Why do you even speak to me?
Don’t you realize who I am?”
He seemed to know everything anyway
and by the time the conversation ended,
there was a new smile in her eyes.
She went back home with a second chance at life.

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