Remember Who We Are #5

 Today we return to II Corinthians 5, where we saw on our first day in this journey the new life we have in Christ.  The chapter ends with these words:

21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

This, of course, is in reference to the sinless Christ being sent by God the Father to take on our sins, so we could stand before God and have Him see us as if we had never sinned.  As Paul said in Romans 3,the fact is that "all have sinned" and None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” (words Paul quoted from the Psalms)  Simply put, now, by faith in Christ, we are "Righteousness in the flesh." I don't know about you, but I don't always feel that way, but that is Who we, as the people of God together, are in Christ.  On the one hand that means we can have a lot of comfort that God does really care about us, and we will one day be fully in His presence.  On that other hand, it is a wake-up call as to who we ought to be and how we ought to live - as those who are right with God and do right by God and to one another.