Sometimes you find yourself in a position where you have failed or fallen and you cannot find your way through it, or even completely out if it. But you know God always provides a way out. Which means He is truly a God of second chances. He gives you a chance to get back up and try again.
A reconciliation arising out of a change in you is not merely because the relationship has changed, but because God has given his Son as a redemptive sacrifice. Reconciliation arises therefore out of God through Jesus Christ to man so that not only the barriers of the fellowship existing in the sinful man be removed but the positive basis for fellowship maybe established through the righteous work of Jesus Christ given to man.
When my eyes began to open back in 2015, I began to realize how bad of a person I had become. I always thought I was a good person because I was a giver. I always gave away everything I had even down to the information I had on my mind that would benefit another. I would never do anything for myself. But because I was like that, people used me up to the point I had nothing left to give. When I was used up, I had become bitter and regretful. I was angry because I did not protect myself, I had let my circumstances dictate who I had become in my older adult life. It was when I had decided to learn who God was to me and the real truth about who Jesus was that I was freed and delivered.
One day I was in my room reading my Bible and the verses said to me, "Daughter your sins are forgiven." "I will never leave you nor forsake you." I will be with you always until the end of time." It blew my mind. After the life I had lived, I was empty. Nothing left in me. To hear something like this I was finally going to be healed. It is amazing! To this day, my anemia is completely gone after 25 years and as far as my SELF is concerned, I am no longer depressed. I handle all my problems without letting them sway me to the left or to the right. I pray and wait for an answer before I move. Reconciliation is real guys!
Reconciliation meets the need that is created by God's separation from a sinful person. The broken relationship between God and man is caused by sin (the things we do wrong that slowly destroy). But Jesus came to give us life and to give it more abundantly. He died to remove our sin. This in itself "Reconciliation" restores the relationship between God and us.
Reconciliation is the change if relationship between God and man based on the changed status of man through the redemptive work of Jesus.
II Corinthians 5:18- Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation
Ephesians 2:16 - That He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross therefore putting death to sin.
All the basis of the sin relationship is removed and a complete relationship is restored.
How wonderful is that! Just think the entire purpose of Jesus' life was for Him to give of Himself to atone our sinful nature. So that we won't experience the God of wrath in whom some experienced in the Old Testament. It may seem strange that a man would give His life for me or you. But just like you think of the purpose of the people that fight the government for you everyday and one day they end up dead. They get honorable parades and awards, etc. Just like those people keep the law from taking advantage of us, Jesus died to give us life. If you could just try him to learn about Him and the Father and the Power of the Holy Spirit. Reconciliation is real guys!
II Corinthians 5:17- Therefore is anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, old things have passed away. Behold all things have become new.
You can't live in the present moment when the past rushes to the front to be first. Your present moment can be so clouded by your past that your present moment cannot be nurtured for the future. For those who already know, BREATHE! You have that word in you. Jesus said your sins are forgiven. He said you are of God so you hear God's words you know the truth. You abide in my word so you are indeed my disciple. The truth is making you free. I said that I do not condemn you BUT you ought not to sin anymore. Avoid those temptations. Because you follow me you shall not walk in darkness anymore. You shall have the light of life.
John 6:63- It is the spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
So what do we do now that we have received this gracious gift of reconciliation, the blotting out of our sin? We stop and let the Holy Spirit begin to do a work in us.
Romans 8:11- But if the spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His spirit who dwells in you.
It is God's spirit who quickens you who are spiritually dead. Spirituality does not represent death. It does not look like death. When you receive the Holy Spirit, You are renewed, regenerated and you are able to be re-created.
Romans 10:8-10- But what does it say? " The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart." That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
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Romans 8:1,2 - There is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit. For as many as are led by the spirit of God. These are the sons of God.
He is the God of second chances.
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