No Turning Back
Regret seems to be a thing that all of humanity struggles with. We make choices in life that seem to stick with us no matter where we go. We look back and think that we should have done something differently. Or maybe things would have turned out better if I made a different choice. But after our reverie, we often come to realize that there’s no turning back from the choices we make. The path we’re on seems to be a one way street. Sure there are many twists and turns. There are forks along the way. Choices that have to be made. And if humanity were left to itself, we would constantly make the choices that benefit ourselves in the short term. It’s because we don’t have eyes to see past our immediate future.
But maybe there is a better way. Jesus came to open a new path for us. One that isn’t bound by laws and rules. One that requires faith in God Almighty. And if we take that path, we can become something different. In fact, Paul wrote that Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 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. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here (2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NIV).
It’s because of the love of Christ that we can be made completely new with a new identity. No longer stuck in the pattern of humanity. No longer bound by sin and shame. We have been made new with a purpose. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 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. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:18-20a NIV).
As a new creation, we’ve been reconciled to God. Those past choices can remain in the past so that we can be free to experience the future purpose we’ve been given. There’s no turning back because we’ve been called to be Christ’s ambassadors to the world.
But maybe there is a better way. Jesus came to open a new path for us. One that isn’t bound by laws and rules. One that requires faith in God Almighty. And if we take that path, we can become something different. In fact, Paul wrote that Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. 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. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here (2 Corinthians 5:14-17 NIV).
It’s because of the love of Christ that we can be made completely new with a new identity. No longer stuck in the pattern of humanity. No longer bound by sin and shame. We have been made new with a purpose. All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 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. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:18-20a NIV).
As a new creation, we’ve been reconciled to God. Those past choices can remain in the past so that we can be free to experience the future purpose we’ve been given. There’s no turning back because we’ve been called to be Christ’s ambassadors to the world.
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