I know I’ve been really slacking on blogging lately, and for that I am sorry. But man this is something that just fires me up and I have to share it!
I can’t count how many times I have heard this verse or read it:
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
the new creation has come:
The old has gone, the new is here!”
-2 Corinthians 5:17
I mean it really is such an incredible and powerful verse. But have you ever kept reading to find out why? Why we are a new creation.
“All this is from God, who reconciled us to
Himself through Christ and gave us the
ministry of reconciliation: that God was
reconciling us to Himself in Christ, not
counting people’s sins against them.”
-2 Corinthians 5:18-19
This was Gods plan from the very beginning of time. He knew that we were going to mess up. He knew that He was going to have to do something big to rock our world and remove the dirtiness that we call sin.
So what did He do?!
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for US, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.“
-2 Corinthians 5:21
So God devised this crazy plan that He would take His perfect, sinless Son and make Him sin. Now this is not talking about make Him commit one little sin like lying to His mother or stealing a candy bar from the shop on the corner of Main St., Bethlehem. No God made His son become the fullness of sin. God put every single ounce of sin on Jesus’ shoulders.
Now I’ve been getting into this thing called Ultralight Backpacking. It’s all about cutting out every ounce in your backpack that you can in order to lighten the weight that you carry on your back. People get so crazy and go as far as cutting the tags off of their clothing in order to shed a few ounces. Ultralight backpacking isn’t cheap, it seems like for every ounce you shed, it costs that much more.
So I think about Jesus and every ounce of weight that was place on His shoulders for the sins the you and I have committed and the price that He had to pay for every ounce that was placed on His back! While I’m trying to cut weight from my backpack, He was trying to take on more weight while He carried the very cross that we was going to be crucified on, on His back.
So this is my encouragement to you today:
Put a heavy backpack on your back and walk around with it for a while.
Not really, but I just want to encourage you to think about the weight of the sin that Jesus took on His shoulders and remember the ultimate price that He payed for all of that weight on the Cross! Not to make you have a crappy day or anything, but to be thankful and give Him all the glory for the price He paid for us!
