September 8, 2022
The Spirit Gives Life
My beloved child, you are an Ambassador of Jesus Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:20) Anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5:17) All of this is a gift from God, (2 Corinthians 9:15) who brought us back to himself through Christ. God has given us this task of reconciling people to Him. For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. He gave us this beautiful message of reconciliation. We are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making His appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin so that we could be made right with God through Christ. (2 Corinthians 5:11-21) You are a walking breathing epistle of the Lord. You have a story to tell, and somebody needs to hear it. For your very lives are our “letters of recommendation,” permanently engraved on our hearts, recognized, and read by everybody. As a result of the ministry, you are living letters written by Christ, not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God-not carved onto stone tablets but on the tablets of tender hearts. (2 Corinthians 2:2-3) The Spirit gives life!
