23/31 - Checking in

"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."

"Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God."

"God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God." 2 Corinthians 5:21

I could decide which translation to use, as I think these are all equally amazing, so I put them all.

For me, this whole chapter in the Bible sums up my faith. Earlier it talks about how, when we give our life to follow Jesus, we are like a new creation, and everything from the past is forgiven and made new. Even though we don't deserve it, we are given a fresh start and our punishment is cancelled, because Jesus takes the blame for us.
Max Lucado writes: 'Your place in heaven was more important to Jesus than His place in heaven, so He gave up His so you could have yours.'

He checked out so that we could check in.

Pretty unfair swap from God's point of view really. But that's the beauty of His grace: no one deserves it, but He freely gives it to everyone anyway.