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Pastor's Column

�lled as Reconcilers”

  1 Peter 2:21-25 - For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23 When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

  Think for a moment what may have been going on in Peter’s mind as he penned these words, remembering back to the day when he denied Christ three times. Who better to understand what our abiding in Christ means than one who failed so spectacularly? That our call in Christ, our faith calls us to be reconcilers in a world bent on destruction.

  Jesus is our example of one who suffered unjustly, but in his suffering committed himself to the Father, and calls us when we suffer in conflict to commit ourselves to His way and His righteousness. Are there moments in your life when conflict visits you as an unwelcome guest, and your first reaction is to attack? Perhaps logic, reason and earthly wisdom would support your action, but is that what you are called to?

  When reconciliation seems like an impossibility (and without Christ this could be the case), when you revel in punishing wrong doing and pointing your finger…remember Jesus. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree (v24) …not for us to continue to live in sin and in self-righteousness, but that we would die to sin and live in His righteousness.

  For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls (v25). If not for Jesus’ enduring endurance, we would still be going astray. But because of His work for us, we have returned to the Shepherd (pastor) and the Overseer (bishop) of our souls.

 


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