In John 3, Nicodemus comes to Jesus because he is a teacher, but as he listens to Jesus he realizes the most important change in his life isn't information, it is transformation. Most of us are familiar with the part of this passage as Jesus tells us that we must be born again or born from above to see what God is doing. But a child does nothing to be born, it is through the mother's pain and effort that a child is born. And so it is with us and Jesus. Jesus said in John 16:21-22,  "A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy."  Have you let yourself be born from above?