Christian Commentary Encouraging Devotions

God chose things the world considers foolish. 1 Corinthians 1:27

Thirteen year old Billy was picked on by others at the teen Bible camp.

He couldn't walk or talk right.

But when he rose to speak during devotions,

there were boys with tears streaming down their cheeks.

It took him a long time to stammer,

"Je-sus loves...me...and...I...love Je-sus."

"We'd done many things to try to reach these boys, but nothing had worked.

We'd even brought in famous baseball players whose batting averages had gone up since they started praying, but it had no effect.

It wasn't until a special needs kid declared his love for Christ that everything changed.

I travel a lot and it's surprising how often I meet people who say,

'You probably don't remember me. I became a Christian at a camp there you were a counselor, and do you know what the turning point was for me?'

I never have to ask.

I always know I'm going to hear - Billy!"

- Tony Campolo, quoted in "The Word for You Today"

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.

We have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view.

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.

So that we could be made right with God through Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:16-21