Opportunity! Part Two

Last time we talked about the opportunity to live like Christ, to do what He has called us to do. First what is that He has called us to do, well 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 says 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that 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. 20We 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. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

If you look closely at the text we can see the Jesus dies so that we could be reconciled to God, and He has given us the ministry of reconciliation. You might be asking yourself or just screaming at the computer screen. what does that mean, I sure am, Reconciliation as defined by Webster's online dictionary is to restore to friendship or harmony. As sinners and since the dawn of time we have been at odds with God because our sin separates us from Him, He may be a loving God but He is a just God and cannot allow sin to enter into His presence. So the ministry of reconciliation through Jesus because He is the only reason that our debt was paid in full and that gives us the opportunity to have a relationship with God. We have been given a mission that is to be an ambassador for Christ. We all have the opportunity to share Jesus with others, what He has done and how He restored His friendship and harmony with us (Romans 10:14-15). Once our relationship with Jesus has been restored God will then work on us to place our trust in Him and not in this world, as we talked about last time. It does take time to actually not worry about earthly things and the more that time that we spend with God the more that we will be placing our focus in Him.