Hello friends (and wife Natasha, the love of my life). Today I read a good scripture that totally blew my mind. It is about us as Christians and what it means to be in Christ. I hope you have a good day. God bless you.
SCRIPTURE:
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
OBSERVATION:
Let me try to break down what this verse is saying.
1) God did something for our sake.
2) He made Jesus to be sin.
3) Jesus didn't know sin because he never sinned.
4) If we are in Jesus we benefit from this.
5) The benefit is that we become the righteousness of God.
This is an amazing trade off! Jesus takes our sin, and in exchange he gives us his righteousness! This is the good news of the Bible. Jesus gives his righteousness freely to all who repent and believe the message.
APPLICATION:
This is one of the foundations of the Christian faith, that we become the righteousness of God through Jesus. I know we don't feel like this is true. But the Bible assures us that if we are in Christ(born again), we are 100% righteous. It means that when God looks at us, He sees Jesus and the price Jesus paid. It also means that when we stand before God on judgment day, it will be like we never sinned a day in our lives!
PRAYER:
Dear LORD, thank you for my new life. Thank you for making me righteous. Thank you for sending Jesus to do what I could never do for myself. Help me to reach the lost with the good news of Jesus.
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