Reconciliation … so we run properly 0
But even I know that you have to have the correct software running on any technical device in order for it to work properly. Windows 95 on my current laptop would be an absolute nightmare.
It’s the same with our lives. If we’re not in communion with our Creator, we’re not going to run properly. For those of a bygone technological age, it’s like those old 45″ singles you used to play on the gramaphone … the ones that had the big holes in the middle. If you didn’t centre that thing properly on the record player, the music would be horribly distorted.
Man, in disobedience, declares himself to be independent of God and causes a great separation. As Solly Ozrovech puts it so well in his book A Shelter From The Storm, “He thought that this would liberate him, but in reality he became the slave of influences stronger than himself. The egotistical I replaced God.”
But man’s declaration of independence from God has been a disaster. It’s clear that mankind cannot rule the world in their own wisdom and strength … just look at South Africa.
But here’s the Good News: “Even though humanity turned away from God, God did not turn away from his people. The purpose of Christ’s coming into this world as a man was to bridge the gaping chasm that separated man from God.”
2 Corinthians 5: 18-19 – “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.”
Through Christ, God has revealed to us what we can become through his strength: Liberated from sin
Enriched by his Spirit living in us
and in communion with Him
Through Christ, our relationship with God is fully restored!