Better Together – Call to Worship & Devotional Thoughts for January 30
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
I think of the familiar story of the little boy who made him a toy sailboat. He carried the little boat out to the pond and began watching it float on the water. However, the wind pulled the little boat away from shore, and all the broken-hearted boy could do was watch it be blown out of reach and sight. Several weeks later he was walking through town and he saw his little toy boat for sale in a pawn store window. He rushed inside and bought the boat and was overheard as he walked down the street hugging his little boat saying, “You are now mine twice. I made you and now I have bought you.”
Today we celebrate the truth that we have been both created by God and also redeemed by God to be His very own. What have we been created and redeemed for? Today as a united body of Christ we are His ambassadors seeking to proclaim to the world that they have been redeemed by Christ and He no longer holds their sins against them. Jesus has secured access to God the Father and an eternity with Him in heaven. As a Salvation Army let’s again today make it our goal to be ambassadors to the lost, that those swept away by sin can once again be re-united with their Creator and Lord who cared enough to buy them back into fellowship.
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Live holy, preach Jesus!
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