"The Word of Reconciliation"

'The Divine Act of Salvation, the ceasing of God's wrath!' This is written in my Bible right after the verse 18 of 2 Corinthians 5. I am not quite sure when I wrote it there, but I can assure you it was at least several years ago. In the New Testament, the word 'reconciliation' means that there has been a change in man which brings him to God by restoring divine favor between man and God. This change which occurs in man is not a change that man can do on his own; although there are many that try, and there are several, if not hundreds of religions that do so. No, this change to man was accomplished by Jesus Christ on the cross; for, as Paul so eloquently puts it in verse 21, "that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him". Now then; this 'Word of Reconciliation' which has been bestowed upon us, is part and parcel the passion of Christ to the cross. It is the Spirit of God in us, that has been birthed in us through reconciliation, and is all about reconciliation; it is the 'Word' part of this equation that makes it interesting, because of the meaning of the word 'word'. The word which Paul uses here is 'Logos', which is the same word that is used in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God". The reason that this causes me to take notice, is the fact that Jesus, being the expressed Word of God, is the one who is expressing the reconciliation through us. Okay, maybe I said that a little too fast to get it all expressed? We are vessels; New Vessels of God; made not by hands, but by God's redemptive power; and because we are His Vessels, we are used for His redemptive plan; which is a plan that did not stop at the cross, but was made possible by the cross. Although Jesus said, "It is finished", just before He died on the cross, He was speaking of the sin which separated man from God was defeated; but His ministry was not over; far from it; it really had just begun. Now, that same passion which drove Him to the cross, is pleading for man come onto to Him; and that same passion is expressed through us!!! "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:20 & 21)