Jesus came into this broken world to save us from our sins and ourselves. He is better than we are and his work on our behalf is better than anything that we might do for ourselves. Not only does he save us from the punishment we deserve for our sin, but he also frees us from its enslaving grasp and empowers us to live a new kind of life. He is better than our pain, our joy, our comforts, our possessions, our hopes, our dreams, our fears. He is better.
"All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 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 Corinthians 5:18-21, ESV).
