Archive for month: March, 2022

Despite our hostility toward God and one another, God has taken the initiative,
through Jesus Christ, to reconcile us and the world to God (2 Corinthians 5:17-18). This is indeed Good News! From God’s perspective, reconciliation has already been accomplished, but from our perspective, it is a different story. We still experience the brokenness of relationships and the brokenness of this world, yet into this brokenness, we have been chosen to represent Christ to the Word as Ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:18-21).

Where there is pain and brokenness, we make amends and bring healing because we are involved in the ministry of reconciliation. This process of reconciliation is difficult and certainly takes time, yet as ambassadors of God, we bring peace, reconciliation, love, and forgiveness to the human experience. We have, indeed, been entrusted with something special: The ministry of reconciliation!

We may witness bad events or outcomes to someone or a group of people and assume we are not as bad as they are and perhaps it served ‘em right. We may get so caught up in the sins and failures of others that we overlook our own sins and failures. It is then that we do not hear what Jesus says to us directly: “Unless you keep repenting, you too will perish.”