All This Is God’s Doing
Second Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (KJV). The passage continues in verses 18 through 21 as follows:
All this is God’s doing, for he has reconciled us to himself through Christ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation. God was in Christ personally reconciling the world to himself – not counting their sins against them – and has commissioned us with the message of reconciliation. We are now Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were appealing direct to you through us. For Christ’s sake we beg you “Make your peace with God.” For God caused Christ, who himself knew nothing of sin, actually to be sin for our sakes, so that in Christ we might be made good with the goodness of God (J. B. Phillips).
Devotional Thought: When I became a believer, I apparently had nothing to do with it. It appears that it was all God’s doing. He reconciled us to himself through Christ. According to the Biblical passage above, God was in Christ personally reconciling the world to himself – not counting their (i.e. our) sins against them (i.e. us). He has also made us agents of the reconciliation and has commissioned us with the message of reconciliation. We are now Christ’s ambassadors and God is appealing directly to the world through us. For Christ’s sake I beg you “Make your peace with God.” For God caused Christ, who himself knew nothing of sin, actually to be sin for our sakes, so that in Christ we might be made good with the goodness of God.
Prayer: Father, you reconciled us to yourself through Christ. You were actually in him personally accomplishing this, not counting our sins against us. And now we are your ambassadors, agents of reconciliation, having been commissioned with the message of reconciliation. I pray that you will appeal directly to the world through us for all those in it to make their peace with you. For you caused Christ, who knew nothing of sin, to be sin for our sakes, so that in him we might be made good with your goodness. In Christ name I pray.
Anton Lee Huger
