Day 53

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Either way, Christ’s love controls us. 

Since we believe that Christ died for all, 

we also believe that we have all died to 

our old life.He died for everyone so that 

those who receive his new life will no 

longer live for themselves. Instead, 

they will live for Christ, who died and 

was raised for them.

So we have stopped evaluating others from 

a human point of view. At one time we thought 

of Christ merely from a human point of view. 

How differently we know him now!This means 

that anyone who belongs to Christ has become 

a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back 

to himself through Christ. And God has given 

us this task of reconciling people to him.For 

God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, 

no longer counting people’s sins against them.

 And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 

So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. 

We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 

For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the 

offering for our sin,so that we could be made right with God through Christ.