A Daily Devotional with Pastor Doug Crouse May 31, 2018 Made Right With God Scripture Reading – 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT)"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." 

The great cost of our salvation is incomprehensible for sure to our human mind! It was that for which Christ Jesus prayed in agony to the Father three times asking if there was any other way to accomplish the work. Then on the cross as Jesus cried out to the Father, ‘My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?’, and the Father turned His face from His one and only beloved Son - at that moment all of the righteous judgment for the sins of the world were laid upon our living and loving Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the precious Lamb of God.

And because of the finished work of Christ on the cross on your and my behalf and for anyone, anywhere who will call upon the name of Christ Jesus in believing faith we are, 'Made Right With God', forgiven, adopted and accepted as His children, holy in Christ Jesus, able to enter by the blood of the Lamb into the very presence of God, whenever we come to our Father in Jesus precious name.

When the Father looks at us in Christ Jesus, He sees us as: Justified - or just as if we had never sinned; righteous as those who now have right standing with God the Father.

This is exactly the Good News that He has commissioned us to share with those who will hear and understand, and pray for those who do not seem even to care that Jesus Christ died on the cross for their eternal salvation. 

Prayer Heavenly Father, I rejoice in the right standing and wholeness in which I may approach Your throne of grace through Jesus Christ my Lord. I pray for family and friends who as of yet do not even seem to care about the cross. Use me to open their eyes in prayer and by love. Holy Spirit empower me to share the Good News of Jesus to those who will hear, and draw many more to be made right before the Father I pray in Jesus mighty name. 

Memory Verse:  John 14:13 NLT “You can _____ for __________ in my name, and I _____ do it, so that the ____ can bring glory to the Father."