I am stealing today’s message from Tre Sills.  Tre is a local pastor and convicted our FCA group today with an important message.

There is a good chance today that many of us have failed on some of our “I am going to be better” convictions that we made at the beginning of 2025.

I know this idea resonates with me because I live in a world of:  “I am going to be better”

The reality is that it is God that makes us better.  God and God alone.

After all, when we meet Jesus in the quiet place and surrender to what He has for us, He does a new thing inside of each of us:

2 Corinthians 5 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 

It is God, and God alone, who makes us better.  And sometimes He does it one layer at a time.  He comes and ministers to our inner self and begins to do a work on us, and in us.  HE, and HE alone, can do that work.

Paul continues with his encouragement, telling us almost the opposite of “I am going to be better” by telling us:

18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 

20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 

Thank You Jesus!

In a world with the wrong kind of accountability, God can show up.  He can show up for me … and for you.

And when He shows up it is to remind us that we are not who we are by our own works … but that we are created in His image and that He can actually work on us from the inside to make us like Him.

He shows up to remind us that His plan is to also do this for others … to reconcile them with Him.

Man doesn’t fix marriages, or companies, or countries, or neighborhoods.  Our president doesn’t decide if we have a life.  Our mayor doesn’t change our life from bad to good.  And our enemies certainly won’t bring out our best.

No.

It is Jesus.

It is the Jesus who spoke the words of life to Lazarus and the woman at the well.  And it is this Jesus who ministered to Roman soldiers, and pharisees who would listen, and leppers who were outcast, and Kings … It is this Jesus who showed up at the temple to tip over tables and send a message to the establishment:  “Not on my watch!”

And it is this Jesus that can fix me … and you.

And we would do wise to do what the Samaritan woman did.  To go into “our place” and tell people:  “Come and meet the man who told me everything I ever knew” (John 4).

After all, if we want to fix _ ….. Whatever it might be ……

We need the Author of the “ministry of reconciliation” and not anything else.

Because He is the only One that can do it in the way that will bring hope.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J