Day 10 - Lent 2026

16 So 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. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in

Christ, the new creation has come: [a] 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 [b] for us, so that in him we might

become the righteousness of God.

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 NIV

Just imagine that there is a ledger in heaven that has kept a record of all of our

transgressions, whether committed by thought, word, or deed. This ledger will be taken

to our trial and used against us to show that we should not go on to glory.

But thanks be to God, He sent His Son to give us a “tabula rasa” (Latin for “blank

slate”), washed in His blood, if we fully embrace Jesus’s sacrifice on the cross and

acknowledge that He rose from the dead and make Him our Lord and Savior. Now that

old ledger is gone, and can’t be used against us. God through His Son made us a new

creation, and as a new creation we see through new eyes as ambassadors of Christ

commissioned in the ministry of reconciliation.

Since God is not a respecter of persons, what He has done for you and me is offered to

all. It is with great joy that we embrace our new life with Christ. As we grow in grace,

our cup runs over and we want to implore the world to reconcile with God, so they can

enjoy this hope and joy of salvation that we have, which the world can’t give and the

world can’t take away. Jesus is the only way, truth and life; no one comes to the Father

except through Him.

Let us pray: Gracious God, I pray that my fellow ambassadors of Christ embrace

our renewal and growth in the Lord. May our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,

continue to order our steps, and may we continue to lift Him up, so that He can

draw all men, women and children until Himself, In Jesus’ name, AMEN.

SUBMITTED BY ELDER IVAN O’CONNOR