2 Corinthians 5: 16-21: “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.”

Second you must be reconciled to yourself. I know this may sound a little crazy but our self image and how you view yourself, will dictate how you think God views you. So, your self image is very important. What you need to know is that God loves you and accepts you just the way you are and He did not make a mistake when he made you.  We are acceptable to him and he loves us for who we are. When Jesus was Baptized by John the Baptist, a voice from heaven was heard and God said, “This is My beloved Son, in Him I am well pleased.” (Matthew 3: 17) Now, notice when God said this about Jesus, before he started his ministry, before he performed one miracle and before he healed one person. God His Father was pleased with Jesus just for He is. Now, can you put yourself in the verse above and say, I am God’s son or daughter, in me He is well pleased.

 In Ephesians 2:13-16, it says, “But now you have been united with Christ Jesus. Once you were far away from God, but now you have been brought near to him through the blood of Christ.  For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into one people when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that  separated us.  He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new people from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.”