Be Reconciled

April 14, 2021
Midweek study with Pastor Edith

That’s what I used to say to the checkbook when I was new at financial management, not only my personal finances but for the USAF Chaplain Fund for the chapel to which I was assigned in my early 20’s. Boy, am I glad I worked with experienced Airmen who could guide me through the process of managing the funds for such a large organization. Today I am thankful for all the help available to my husband and I as we navigate financial stability in a very unstable world. More than that, I am very thankful for those faithful to the Lord who guide us as we continue to live for Christ in an unstable environment where even fellow Christians participate in disunity at a time when we need to exemplify unity in the love of Christ and in God’s word.

Here’s the take-away for today:
“So, from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God we're making his appeal through us.

We implore you on Christ’s behalf: "Be reconciled to God. God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:16-21-emphasis, mine.) “And they’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love, and they’ll know we are Christians by our love”.

AMEN!