A Verse On Sunday

The Gospel according to John, chapter 1, verse 13.
'Which were born not of blood, nor by the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.'

The sons of God, those who 'believed on his name', those who 'received him,' those to whom he gave 'power to become the sons of God,' when they came into the world as wee cute babies, were not born the sons of God.
Many wishful thinkers like to believe that God resides in all of us, that all of us are chosen by God. There are others who like to claim the credit for their faith, that they themselves are responsible for their faith, poor frail creatures that they are, that they made a decision to accept the Almighty.
Yet the new Israel, like the old Israel, are a chosen people.
A Christian is no more active in his birth in Christ than new born babies are active in their emergence from their mothers' wombs.
The sons of God are not born 'of blood', nor 'of the will of the flesh,' nor 'of the will of man', but solely, wholly, completely of the will of God.
The heathen enjoys the Common Grace of all Adam's descendants, - the joys of the world, its beauty, its love and laughter, the pleasure in creativity and prosperity - as well as the fruit of Common Sin, but the heathen lives absorbed in himself, above him only sky, and when his hour comes, he will suffer eternal death.
But the sons of God praise the Lord in this world, and bask in  his eternal truth, and will do so forever more, sons of the Eternal,  sons of God, elect, born of the will of God.