Two women ran into each other in the produce department of the grocery store. They had been childhood friends but had become enemies when they both fell for the same boy in high school. The rivalry ruined their friendship and they never spoke again until this moment. Cautiously at first, they greeted, then began to open up to each other. They quickly discovered that neither one ended up with that boy, and were glad about it. They also discovered that they only lived four blocks from each other for all these years.
By the time they picked out their produce, they were reconciled and had renewed their friendship. Reconciled. What a wonderful word. The two women did it in a grocery store through a chance meeting and a conversation. Other reconciliations are more difficult. Imagine the vast void between God and man after the fall of Adam and Eve. Generations of being apart and out of true fellowship with our Creator, the one who loves us more than anyone.
Reconciliation in this case seemed impossible. We needed a miracle, we needed something that we could not provide. We needed a Savior. So when the fullness of time had come, God, our Father, provided a solution. He sacrificed His only begotten Son, Lord Jesus, to take our punishment, our place on the cross, in order to reconcile us back to our Heavenly Father.
The Bible reads, “For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. this includes you who were once far away from God.“ (Colossians 1:19-21)
Accept Him. We are reconciled!
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