Reconciliation

"Once you were alienated, but now completely reconciled," Colossians 1:21-22.

From whom were we alienated? From each other. But mainly from God. How did we get alienated? Not a pretty sight. Suffice to say, we were mindfully hostile, we did bad things. Well, we did. We got enraged, we lied, we planned ways to get even, we cursed each other. And we blamed God for it all. No need to go on. But it's all there. And how did we get reconciled? That's not a pretty sight, either. God wholly lived in Christ to make us reconciled, holy ... by the blood of Jesus' cross. By his own body, his flesh, sacrificed in a gruesome death. And by this execution God reconciles everything, absolutely everything, on earth and in the skies. All things.

Humbled we confess, we do not deny, we confess hostility. Raised up we confess, we do not deny, we confess Jesus, reconciler of warring souls. And today, with a brother or sister, we joy in God's utterly complete friendship. Transformed.