91 Do you know something? It is not important to Jesus whether we know who Simon Bolivar was, or who Benito Juarez or Jean Paul Sartre or any other famous personality was; nor even if you can name the Doctors of our Church (whom we should at least have heard about) or what Ernesto Sabato or Lenin said… What is important to Jesus is our personal response to these great questions: Who Am I for you? What do I mean to you? 92 As when Jesus would be taken before Pilate and he would say: “Are you the King of the Jews?”, Jesus replied: “Does that question come from you or are you repeating what others told you about Me?” (Jn 18:33-34) In the same way, when we tell Him: “You are the Lord, You are God; You are the Son of God”, Jesus asks us: Do you say this of your own accord, or is it because you have heard it? 93 Is it because your heart recognizes Me, or because you heard it in Church, or at home or at your apostolate, among your friends, etc.? Is it the product of what people tell you, or is it what you have in your heart…? 94 Let us remember that Jesus said one day: “Truly, Truly I say to you that unless you are born of water and the Spirit, you cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” (Jn 3:5) 95 What does it mean here “to be born again”? To be born again is not solely to abandon the sinful life and to start a new one after believing in Jesus as most people think… even if most people do not act on that.
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