JUST FOR OUR SAKE Wednesday November 4,
2015
Text: 2 Corinthians 5:16 – 21 Memory verse: v 21
If
we ever hope to know God and appreciate all He does for us, we should retrace
our steps backwards to the events at the Cross of Calvary. This is one reason I
so much love Easter Period. The readings of that season and all its teachings
give me insight into the magnitude of God’s love for us. Paul tells the
Corinthians that Jesus was made a sinner simply because He wants to secure for
us our righteousness of God. Thus we learn that sin must have a sacrifice
(Hebrews 9:22). God made Him to be a sin; that is, a sin-offering, or a
sacrifice to atone for our sin. Under the law, the sacrifice was called sin,
because the sin of the person was laid upon the sacrifice; there was a sort of
a translation of the sin from the sinner to the sacrifice (Leviticus 4:4).
We
also learnt that Jesus Christ being made sin for us is the meritorious cause
and means of our being made the righteousness of God in Him. We broke God’s
righteous law. Christ kept it and fulfilled all righteousness. We sinned
against mercy, Christ suffered without mercy. He did this for our sake. Have
you accepted Jesus as Lord? This sacrifice must not be in vain.
Food for Thought: Galatians 3:13
Prayer: Help me O Lord to always acknowledge the sacrifice
Jesus made for my sake, by becoming sin so that I will be righteous.
