The Gospel is the
very best God has to offer us. It is the
fulfillment of all His thinking and rises monumentally above every invention of
mankind and is beyond the complexity of the most impressive of His own creations. The Gospel is the culmination of love; love
taken to the furthest dimension. God's
thought entered physicality when He placed in Jesus Christ the totality of the
sins of the world and gave man the right to execute Him. Pay careful attention to 2 Corinthians
5:21. God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. (NIV) For
our sake, Jesus Christ became sin. He
was all the sin of all the world when He was crucified. For what reason? It was so that all the righteousness of God
might be our righteousness. Actually, it
is more that all the righteousness of God might be us. This is odd to consider. We always think of our righteousness as doing
the trick when it comes to God or at least hoping it does. We make our choices and do what is good...most
of the time...sometimes...at times. Yet
God has made a trade with us in Christ.
He took our sin and gives us His righteousness. There is nothing like this in all of
religion...only real God could come up with such a plan. It is grace to the nth degree. The Christian life is not a matter of trying
to get things right. It is developing
the habit of letting the rightness of God come out of us. Every skill set you see in the Sermon on the
Mount is possible because we are the rightness of God in flesh. This body, which has been so many times an
instrument of rebellion against God is noble for this very reason. The rightness of God is part of it and like a
sponge that is squeezed; His rightness comes out of this body when we let the
Holy Spirit bring the mind of Christ into full focus as we think. Thinking in God is simple. We just have to train our wild pony of a mind
to do it by making the Scriptures our framework for how we process everything
we encounter.
As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him
will never be put to shame."
Romans 10:11 NIV
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