Day 192: May 8, 2026 – II Corinthians 1-7

There are a number of concepts in this Scripture that are important to view and which I had forgotten are included in these passages. The first is the ministry of reconciliation where we are commanded to not only be reconciled with God but also to be reconciled with each other. You can find that in II Corinthians 5 where we read that Christ was made to be sin who knew no sin, and that we are ambassadors for Christ. All of this terminology reminds us of the work that Christ has done for us, and so, as a result, the work that we ought to do for Christ.

We also have the concept of being willing to identify sin and bring people to repentance without shame or guilt. The part that we do the worst job at is to actually identify and declare sin as sin and then trying to bring people to repentance. We are very comfortable with allowing sin to live and fester without saying anything because we do not want to judge. That is a hard line to walk, but one that we almost exclusively walk on the side of not saying anything to anyone because it is hard and not something that we feel like we are called to do. But the presence of sin is real, and we have to deal with it somehow, but we don’t.