Birthday Cake

"He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created." James 1:18

This picture is of a piece of birthday cake. We returned to Hampshire for this weekend, so that we could go to one of James' second cousins 21st Birthday with all his family. I didn't realise he came from such a big family!!! It was nice to see everyone, because some of them I have never met, and others I have not seen since we got married!!

I have read a few interpretations of this Bible verse, that it is referring to the Jews, or is referring to the early Christian church, that they were the first to be brought into the kingdom of God. When first read it I thought it was referring to the fact that we can be born again through the truth that Christ died for us. That God gives us new life, wipes the slate clean and we can be reborn. It seems to me that firstfruits is referring to the early Church, that they were the first to experience this re-birth, this is available to us all.