Currently Reading Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship With God By Dallas Willard see related

This verse hit me last night with a little force.  "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." --2 Cor. 5: 21--  Christ became what he wasn't, so that we also might become what we are not.  He didn't just wipe it away or forget it, He became it.  The very farthest thing from the holiness of the Eternal Son is exactly what He became to make us the righteousness of God.  Sin does not belong in the trinity, yet Christ became it and the Father willed it, that we might be righteous.  That is heavy to me.  That is one of those thoughts that makes me sit back in my chair and just think, "Wow, wh.., wh.., what?!, why??"  Its kinda like Romans 5: 6-8.  God dies for sinners.  Not just any man dies, no, God Himself dies for us.  And not only does He die, He becomes sin that I might be the righteousness of God. 

Now I think about how I live.  Knowing what steps have been taken to make me righteous, I find myself ashamed.  How do we respond to such outrageous actions taken to give us such an undeserved, life-changing gift?  I guess we act like we have been changed.  We live from what we have been given.  What if we lived like we really had been given the most outrageous gift ever?  What if we lived like we had just been set free from death row?  Sadly, I don't.  But I'm grateful that my Father is patient and continues giving grace to open my eyes to the life he desires from me.  I hope and pray that I move closer and closer to living like I have been given the righteousness of God. 

"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth!  For I am God, and there is no other." --Isaiah 45:22--