Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

When I mentioned that Nicodemus came to Jesus alone please do not miss the inference of having alone time with God.

Shut the door is important as Jesus is the door as I have quoted before. The door to our heart closed is telling us to turn off our minds and all the distractions that we encounter all day long. For some of us that is hard to do. But it is essential if we are going to receive the reward that is waiting for us in being there.

We get to be alone with God and at that time all His attention is on us as individuals.

Those secret things God reveals to us are for us alone. They are things meant for our good.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Shutting off the mind is putting away our plans and discovering God’s personal plan for us.

We are never alone as long as we have Jesus in our hearts.

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

The only time Jesus mentions being born again is in a theological discussion with Nicodemus alone, in private, at night.

Granted God inspired John to reveal this conversation for us but during Jesus’ earthly ministry He did not reveal this most important issue to the masses. To them He spoke in parables.

Luke 8:9-11 English Standard Version

The Purpose of the Parables

9 And when his disciples asked him what this parable meant, 10 he said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’ 11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Allow me to act like a child, “Why?”

Isaiah 6:9-10 English Standard Version

9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people: “‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’ 10 Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

But why?

The understanding heart is only possible if we are born again which is impossible without placing our faith in Jesus Christ and His atoning work on the Cross.

Jesus is the only way. We cannot get there without Him.