Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night, under cover of darkness. He learns from Jesus that to enter God's kingdom one must be reborn from above by water and the Spirit. And so it is with us on the Lenten road today. We are reborn through the cleansing waters of holy Baptism where the Holy Spirit is given to us, and through this gift we receive the good news of Jesus, who came into the world not to condemn it, but that the world might be saved through him.