2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Heaven is a perfect, holy, pure, clean, sinless place. We, as imperfect, unholy, impure, unclean, sinful people could never be worthy to reside there. Yet, God, in His infinite love for us wanted us to be able to reside there. Did God lower His standards to allow us in?
Can you place something dirty on something clean and make it clean? No for the thing you place the dirty object on then becomes dirty. In the same way God cannot just accept us into heaven and and let heaven purify us. Heaven would become defiled by us. So what did He do? God used His Son as a vehicle for reconciling us to Him.
I've often focused on the physical pain Jesus endured on the cross in order to reconcile us to God. Today, it finally hit me, the spiritual suffering Jesus endured for our sake, was much worse than the physical suffering. Jesus was perfect, holy, pure, clean and sinless yet He took upon Himself all the sin, all the wrath, all the punishment we deserved in order for us to be reconciled to God so we could go to heaven.
Does that mean everyone will automatically go to heaven? No. We have to accept the gift God has given us. We have to accept the work Jesus did on the cross for us. We have to accept Jesus.
Blessings, Cecilia
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