7 Pictures of New life - TWO

In the midst of a worship service I received seven pictures of new life in Christ. They came in the form of streaming images, like watching a National Geographic movie with different camera moves angles,  extreme closeups almost microscopic shots of things. 

Each of these pictures ran in my mind's eye for what seemed like minutes. They ran back to back like chapters on a DVD.  

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BIRTH OF THE MAN - CHILD

Vision Two--Seed the beginning of new life—infant—being formed in HIS image

Extreme close up of something, red blotches and vague and partial lines seemingly random and totally unconnected appeared on a light background, it looked like brush strokes on a whitish semi translucent canvas. The lines continued to lengthen and multiply until they were totally connected and covering most of the surface of the canvas which had curled around and became more and more transparent in stages. The size grew as did the number of red lines covering the surface.

As it became more translucent I could see a darker shape reddish brown in color moving behind the curtain with the series of red lines. The movement grew more discernible on the inside of what now appeared to be a translucent sac. 

I could now see that the lines were blood vessels that were crisscrossing the sack in every direction. Whatever it was inside the sac, it was alive. Was it a chick, a puppy or a cat? No it was a baby inside the amniotic sac within the womb! 

Although it first appeared as a shapeless mass, in seconds it had grown into an infant and then continued to grow in size and form, developed longer legs, the muscles were growing, maturing and taking shape, they were definitely not a baby’s muscles.

Rebirth as a mature man - It was a mature man child growing up inside the amniotic sac of the womb.

3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a (mature) man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 

8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”  John 3:3-8