PJP2 PROLOG 160517 PROLOG Focus - 2 Corinthians 5:18-21....

Psalm 119:7 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."I Will Praise You With An Upright Heart, When I Learn Your Righteous Rules."....

PJP2 PROLOG POST 160517 - 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 (ESV/emphasis added/jaj)...."All This IS From God, Who Through Christ Reconciled us To Himself AND Gave us The Ministry Of Reconciliation; That IS, IN Christ God Was Reconciling the world To Himself, NOT counting their trespasses/sins against them, AND Entrusting To us The Message Of Reconciliation.  Therefore, we Are Ambassadors For Christ, God Making His Appeal Through us.  We IMPLORE you On Behalf Of Christ, BE RECONCILED TO GOD.  For our sake He Made Him To BE sin Who Knew NO sin, SO That In Him we Might Become The Righteousness Of God."....

Dear Readers of PJP2 - first my Thanks to you for stopping by.

I am certain, if you've kept track, you are well aware I have a LOT of Favorite Passages Of the Word, Select (Fav/POWS) - that would indeed be very true.  Welllll.....hang on, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 is yet another Fav/POWS.  :) There is simply so much of God's Gold in this set of POWS.....man, I hardly know where to begin.

First there's The Holy Statement Basic Statement of Eternal Truth - "All This IS From God, Who THROUGH Christ RECONCILED us To Himself"....This Statement of Eternal Truth would be enough to ponder on for the rest of the PJP2s I may ever be fortunate enough to pen.  Such a Statement of His Love and His Grace.  To be RECONCILED, to have our fractured Relationship with God Repaired and Renewed, even though we have done nothing but rebelled and disobeyed Him, this Act of Love, in and of itself, is mind-boggling.

Then there's our Mission:  The Ministry Of and Message Of God's Reconciliation of us Through our Lord Jesus Christ's Life, Sacrifice, Resurrection and Indwelling of His Holy Spirit (as a Deposit Securing our FAITH - see 2 Corinthians 5:5/jaj).....In a Sense, God's Asked us to Hand Out MOR of His Grace to both our Fellow Family of Faith, and to those who do Not Yet Know Him.....MOR - Ministry Of/Message Of Reconciliation.

Oh, and IF you want a Title for Being Members of His MOR Messengers.....He has Appointed us as His Ambassadors!  We are His Ambassadors For Christ (AFC)!  As with any Ambassador, our Mission is to Be His Representative to Both those who already are His, and to those He is Seeking Out to Reconcile with, and even to those who have rejected Him, and unfortunately sided with the enemy.  God The Father is STILL Reaching Out to All - As His Holy Spirit Inspired Peter to Record....(2 Peter 3:9 {ESV})...."The Lord IS Not slow To Fulfill His Promise as some count slowness, BUT IS Patient Toward you, NOT Wishing That ANY should perish, BUT That ALL Should Reach Repentance."....

Lastly there's This Last Compelling Truth..... (2 Corinthians 5:20c-21 {ESV})...."We IMPLORE you On Behalf Of Christ, BE RECONCILED TO GOD.  For our sake He Made Him To BE sin Who Knew NO sin, SO That In Him we Might Become The Righteousness Of God."....

What a super-encouragement - God Love for us is SO deep, He Became a Man, flesh and blood as we are.  He Walked Among us, Lived as we Live, and Remained unstained by our common human failing of sinfulness and selfishness.  Yet, Miracle of Miracles, our Lord Jesus Christ, as He Bore His Cross to Calvary, and then His Cross Bore Him to His Death - each agonizing step, each of the sins of All mankind, clung to Him, Him Who Knew NO sin.  He Drew them all to Him, and 72-hours later, on that First Resurrection Sunday, our Lord Jesus pulverized sin and death, leaving them heaving and broken in His former Tomb!

In a Word.....OUTSTANDING!!!!

So my Prayer for us today would be a Paraphrase of Prayer and Praise based on His Word from 2 Corinthians 5:18-21....O Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit, Father God, we Thank You that All of Your Story of Love, Grace and Reconciliation is Straight From You.  Father God, we Thank You that It Is You Who Through Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Implemented Your Plan and  Reconciled us To Yourself.  Holy Spirit, Help us to Rightly Employ what You Have Given us, that Is to Share Your Ministry Of Reconciliation.  Lord Jesus, Guide us and Teach us That IT IS IN You, that God The Father Is Reconciling/Repairing our ruin relationship with him and our world To Himself.  Father God, we are in Awe that You, By Your Grace, Are NOT counting our trespasses/sins against us.  Holy Spirit, we Are overwhelmed that You Are Entrusting To us This Message Of God The Father's Reconciliation of all mankind.  Lord Jesus, Inspire us as Your Ambassadors.  Father God, Encourage us and Show us How You Would Have us Make Your Appeal to those who Do Not Know You, or have rejected You, Share This Through us.  O people Hear us as we IMPLORE you On Behalf Of  our Lord Jesus Christ, BE RECONCILED TO GOD The Father.  Lord Jesus, we Thank You that For our sake You Surrendered to God The Father, And You Became sin for us.  You, Who Knew NO sin, Became sin for All mankind.  Father God, Holy Spirit, Thank You for Completing Your Miracle of Reconciliation that In Him, Your Son, our Lord Jesus, we Might Become Your Righteousness.  We Lift Up our Prayers in Your Holy Name....Amen/Amen....jaj