The spiritual bond between God and man was broken when Adam and Eve committed the first sin in the Garden of Eden. The ability of people to have spiritual fellowship with God was broken. God made it possible for us to be reconciled to Himself by giving the life of His only Son to pay the penalty for our sins.
“… Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life. He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And 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. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. So 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.” (2Corinthians 5:14-21 NLT) [1]
Turn away from your sinful
style of living. Tell God about it in
prayer. Tell our Heavenly Father that
you trust that Christ’s sacrifice for you is sufficient to cancel out all of
your sins in His sight. Believe that
Jesus was God revealed in a human body, and that those who believe in Him will
“not perish but have everlasting
life.” (John 3:16 NKJV)
Read the Bible every day, and find a church with a Bible-based ministry
where you can learn to become a disciple of Jesus Christ. God bless you.
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