Leaving it Behind

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Thought we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 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. 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. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Maybe it sounds silly, but I don't think I ever got that before. I've heard the "new creation" verse a million times. It's a great one. But I never looked at it in context before. Well, I probably tried to but I just read over the surrounding verses really fast. How many times is a form of the word reconciliation used in this short passage? A ton! This passage is about how we treat other people! We're to treat them as new creatures in Christ, because that's what they are. We're not supposed to treat each other as we deserve, but we're supposed to be reconciled to each other just as Christ's death reconciled us to God. Amazing.