Your DNA might reveal what abilities or disabilities you have, what addictions you are prone to, what diseases you might acquire, but it doesn’t contain the half of who you are.

Your body is separate from your spirit. Just as your body was born, your spirit must also have a birthdate.

God is Spirit. To be a part of His kingdom, part of His family, our spirits must be born into it. We become God’s child — a part of God’s Kingdom — when our spirits are born anew, when we are given God’s Holy Spirit.

Being born anew is an invisible birth. It happens in churches, in tax collector’s homes during dinner, in upper rooms during prayer, in jails during moments of great sorrow, even on deathbeds when it’s almost too late.

Being born anew begins with a choice. It is the only part we play in becoming a citizen in God’s kingdom. It is free for the asking and it happens the moment we cry out for God to take over our lives, change us, forgive us, make us righteous (see Luke 11:9-13).

Every day is another opportunity for a spiritual birthday. Experience what God has to offer. Be born anew.