“Ye must be born again,” he said,
Raised from your tomb of sin and death;
Jesus, your ever-living Head,
He died to put in you His breath.

“Ye must be born again,” or stay,
Without the true and living Bread;
Far from His love and righteous way,
Lost and condemned, forever dead.

“Ye must be born again,” or be,
Faced with God’s all-consuming wrath;
Prepared to face the agony;
Of being lost eternally.

“Ye must be born again,” he said,
Jesus who loves and makes this plea;
Who wants you to, by him be led,
Cry, “God be merciful to me.”

(Tune: Duke St; Rimington; LM)
(© James R. Hamilton, written Friday, 1st, August, 2003)