Born of God

During my sophomore year, our stake was given the opportunity to perform "From Cumorah's Hill" by Steven Kapp Perry and Brad Wilcox. I've mentioned this in a previous post, but my voice is far from pleasant to listen to. So when they announced this, I immediately started thinking of ways to convince my mom to not make me participate. She just as quickly thought of responses to my pleadings. So, I participated, but not with a very good attitude.
Practices were long and boring. The only part I liked about them was being able to see my friends and the boy I  had a crush on. Other than that, it was painfully dull to sit there and listen. However, as we came closer and closer to our performance, a song started to get stuck in my head. This song, "Born of God," consistently played through my head during the week:


How could I change?
How I had tried.
How I had failed
Time after time.
Needing a strength
More than my own,
Leaving my faith
In God, alone.

How I had prayed
Seeking for peace,
How could I change?
How could I be

Born of God, born of God,
A new creation as at first.
Born of God, praising God
For the wonder of a second birth.

I began to love this song. I loved the feeling I had when I listened to it. I loved the idea of being reborn, and born of God. It is still one of my favorite gospel songs, and I listen to it periodically. Every time I do, I get those same feelings.

In Mosiah 5, King Benjamin's people get these same feelings of joy from being born of God.


 2 And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually.

 3 And we, ourselves, also, through the infinite goodness of God, and the manifestations of his Spirit, have great views of that which is to come; and were it expedient, we could prophesy of all things.

 4 And it is the faith which we have had on the things which our king has spoken unto us that has brought us to this great knowledge, whereby we do rejoice with such exceedingly great joy.

 5 And we are willing to enter into a covenant with our God to do his will, and to be obedient to his commandments in all things that he shall command us, all the remainder of our days, that we may not bring upon ourselves a never-ending torment, as has been spoken by the angel, that we may not drink out of the cup of the wrath of God.

The people changed. They had no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually. They were born of God.

"And now, because of the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you; for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore, ye are born of him and have become his sons and his daughters."

(Here's a link to "Born of God." It's awesome. Listen to it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu6PFBnDLYg )