January 26, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
2 Corinthians 5 (NIV)
Awaiting the New Body
1 For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.……Continue Reading
Reconciliation something we typically think of when two people, who have likely both made some mistakes, need to come back together and fix things. We think about marriages, families, even workplaces. But here Paul is talking about how God is looking to initiate reconciliation with us and yet He never did anything wrong. Imagine He sent His son to pay for our sin and shame, He experienced separation from His Father and great physical pain to make a way for reconciliation with us and all we need to do as the offending party is accept it! This is when we take the eternal mindset, we walk by faith not by sight realizing this world with all its momentary trials and hurts is not the end. We choose to follow knowing ALL He has done to bring us into relationship with Him no matter how undeserving and we have the privelege to share that amazing testimony of love, mercy, and grace with others that they might join us in eternity too!
2CORINTHIANS 5
I love the reminder to live for Christ on earth as we are only living temporarily in it. Life on earth is but a preparation for a longer life after death. Compared to eternity, life on earth is like a speck of dust.
2 Corinthians 5
“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.”
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/2co.5.20-21.NIV
Praise God for His mercy on us! I love the image of our bodies being tents that, in time, will be shed and we will live in spirit bodies.
Philippians1:21
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.