PrayerBits for Saturday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Saturday

Scripture lesson: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 All things new

Time to reflect:It seems hard for us to put things behind us. It is tough to accept forgiveness or to give it. But as Paul so eloquently expresses it, this is the Good News of the Gospel. We are forgiven by God and can start fresh – and in the same fashion we are to let others start fresh. In fact, it is a part of our job to bring this good news to others – to reconcile them to God.

Moving through the day: Who do you need to start fresh with?

16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We 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. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.