So I was reading the Love Letter, as called by my dear friend Kelly Ann, and me being not all knowing starting wondering what the word reconcile and reconciled and reconciliation really mean...so i went to dictionary.com and looked it up... these are the verses i read in the NIV version....
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 were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Now this is it with the definition put in....
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 reestablished a close relationship between us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reestablishing a close relationship between(us and God): that God was reestablishing a close relationship between the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reestablishing a close relationship between( God and man). We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reestablished a close relationship between God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Kinda weird to read but the heart of it is AMAZING!! To know that it is really all about relationships! I love it!! To know that is what God wants is a relationship with us! Not just any relationship, but a CLOSE one!!!! Thank you God for loving us this much!!!!
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 were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Now this is it with the definition put in....
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 reestablished a close relationship between us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reestablishing a close relationship between(us and God): that God was reestablishing a close relationship between the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reestablishing a close relationship between( God and man). We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reestablished a close relationship between God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Kinda weird to read but the heart of it is AMAZING!! To know that it is really all about relationships! I love it!! To know that is what God wants is a relationship with us! Not just any relationship, but a CLOSE one!!!! Thank you God for loving us this much!!!!
