Comprehension Cannot Ride The Tide into A Fork In The River It Cannot See

"And, except a man be born again, he cannot see 

the kingdom of God."             Jesus said it in John 3:3. 

If you cannot see the holy things of God, you cannot embrace them.

Salvation must be experienced to even begin to comprehend it. Some non-spiritual things, in life, are similar. Experience is indeed the best teacher but experience disavowed may require repeating over and over again until the lesson is learned.           "Tribulation worketh patience".  Rom.5:3.          But if the lesson of patience is not soon learned, the repetition of suffering tribulation will wear down one's health and earn them the reputation of rebellion. But their real  problem is spiritual blindness to the things of God. That was also the problem of of those stumbling, misdirected, unbelievers Jesus referred to in Matt. 15:14 and cautioned his disciples to simply "let them .... alone".  They have a sufficient destiny at river's end  and cannot be intimidated, insulted or convinced against their will.         

Sometimes the best advice you can give a fool is none at all.       "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."      There are ditches of either side of a road, wherever it leads and anyone who gets too far left or right from the center stripe of truth will wind up either in the ditch of hypocrisy or the ditch of depravity.  Each pointing an accusative finger, across the road of truth at "those hypocrites" on the right or "those evildoers" on the left.  Their equally erroneous failure is, they cannot see the things of God because they are spiritually blind. They may want the peace, joy, security, and hope that Christian believers have but they do not want the Christian God telling them what to do or what not to do.

Salvation is a deep personal experience, but it is not comprehended by the unsaved world without their faith in and submission to that one and only God and Jesus Christ as their Savior.  They are lost on the River of Life, seeking safety and deliverance from its raging tide by their own hand or that of other men, or luck. And they cannot see, because they will not, the narrow way which forks off to eternal life but are carried on by the rush of the broad way river which leads to destruction.        "Except a man be born again, he cannot see ...."