2 Corinthians 5:11-21 God's Attitude Toward Sin Is Terror, But Through Christ We Are Reconciled

Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade others. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. If we are “out of our mind,” as some say, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.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, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 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 people’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. The only reason that I could make my morning prayer to God is that through the death and resurrection of Christ on the Cross, God now accredits to as holy in Christ Jesus. There was a time prior to my salvation when I was a stranger to God and had no access to him. Today through the gospel, I have the access to him as a son and he is my father. If you know him, his attitude toward toward sin is wrath and we should try to avoid sin. But for the sins we can't avoid, God is faithful and just to forgive our sins for Jesus' sake. Daily Prayer; Lord, limit my sins to those unintentional ones. Let not me knowingly contend with God because I fear his discipline in my life. In Jesus name I pray Amen.