Isaac Ambrose: Piercing Heaven – Puritan’s Prayers

Unless I am born again, I cannot enter heaven.

Born again? What does that mean, Lord? Did that kind of thing ever really happen to me? Was I ever cast into the pangs of a new birth? And did those pangs of new birth continue until Christ Jesus was formed in me?

Are old things done away, so that all things have become new?

Is the old person, the old lusts, the old way of speaking, totally abandoned? Have they been left behind?

Are my principles made new? My goals? My life?

Amen.