Picking up where we left of yesterday: The King and the counselor love the born again in the same way, knowing we are helpless to help ourselves in this new life. How can they do that for a babe in Christ that is of an age and experience in the world with conceptions based on a world ruled by the prince of the power of the air, Satan?

John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Satan’s realm is fear based. To contrast the world we lived in with the Kingdom of God, fear is replaced with love, mercy, grace and peace. We see these words uttered over and over again by Jesus to His disciples, “Fear not, it is I.”

Since the King and the counselor are new residents within our hearts, every care is taken not to frighten us. He loves us and wants a close personal relationship. The King and the counselor will know how to talk to us so that fear is avoided. We are all different in experience and we cannot expect the King and the counselor to approach all of us in the same manner. What they do is best described as loving us into submission.

The work of getting to know the indwelling King is the responsibility of our counselor, the Holy Spirit. All this is performed on a spiritual level and done with these new eyes and ears. Spiritual eyes and ears are not of this world.

2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

When we are born of water, we do not see clearly at first. We have not yet learned to focus. We hear the sounds of our parent’s voices but understanding of the language comes with time. We learn the language of our parents. Why do we think that being born again should be any different?

Micah 4:9 Now why dost thou cry out aloud? is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished? for pangs have taken thee as a woman in travail.

Micah describes the pangs of new birth into the kingdom of God. There is a similitude of births of water and the spirit. Both are announced in travail. Beyond this we can only look upon these events in others because we ourselves do not remember that moment of birth.

Water birth happens and the baby comes forth crying from the womb. As the baby is laid upon the mother’s chest, the baby hears the mother’s heartbeat. Suddenly a calm comes over the child like a miracle. All the pain of birth is forgotten once the child hears that familiar heartbeat that had been so close and familiar all those months.

Can I remember any such event in my new birth? No, I do not recall any such miracle at that moment of new birth. Decades removed from that moment, I cannot pin down that event to any one moment. As Micah points out, when did the King enter in? When did my counselor first speak to me?

Remember back to My Witness and the anger that left me. Was that the moment of my new birth? I wasn’t aware at the time of an event called being born again. All I knew was the travail and the end of it. If the King entered in then, why did He not announce Himself? If my counselor was there, why didn’t He announce the coming of my King? Why were they silent? Or were they?

Comparing births again, water and spirit, what is priority number one? This babe is helpless and needs the mother and father to supply every need. Babes do not even know how to ask for things. We cry and it is the parent’s responsibility to discover why the baby is crying and to meet its needs.