Acts 4:23-31 / John 3:1-8
The irony of life is that things happen contrary to what we expect.
This happens especially in the spiritual realm when God puts down the proud and mighty, but He raises the poor and lowly.
In the 1st reading, Peter and John were released and they went back to the community and told them what had happened.
The powerful chief priests and elders had tried to stop them but God proved to be more powerful.
The community rejoiced and praised God for His mighty works, they also saw this.
That the more the rulers, the chief priests and the elders tried to stop the community from witnessing to the Good News, the stronger the community became.
This was of course with the blessing of God, that God was working powerfully through the Christian community.
And as they prayed and praised God, even the house where they were assembled began to rock and they were filled with the Holy Spirit.
In the gospel, Jesus told Nicodemus that unless a man is born through water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
We are baptized with water and Holy Spirit.
When we let the Holy Spirit direct our lives we will see the wonders of God.
And we will also know that God works wonders for the humble and the lowly.