The Piercing and Discerning Word

I've been thinking about a passage in Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians:

For Christ's love compels us, since we have reached this conclusion: if One died for all, then all died. And He died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the One who died for them and was raised.

From now on, then, we do not know anyone in a purely human way. Even if we have known Christ in a purely human way, yet now we no longer know Him like that. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Now everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ 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 He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf, "Be reconciled to God." He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. [HCSB]

I realize I haven't had much to say lately here at In the Clearing. I've kind of lost my blogging mojo, if you know what I mean. But this passage of Scripture has been doing a number on me lately, piercing and discerning, so what I think I'm going to do in a few upcoming posts is kind of journal my way through these words. More next time.