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"You were God's enemies," Colossians 1:21.

You? That is, us. That's us. We were God's hostiles. Aliens to God. Our minds set to do evil deeds. Was truly us. Was. But no longer. Not now. God offered new terms of endearment. Jesus made peace with us. How? (because we got good? Hardly!) How? By his blood that bled from his wounds on the cross where we hammered the nails in his hands and his feet. And beat the thorns into his head. And bloodied his back with the lash. He reconciled us to God in his body of flesh by his death. Jesus let us beat him mercilessly so that he could show us off to God as a people holy, blameless, and without guilt.

We meet with a brother or sister today amazed by God's generosity. And, won over together by Jesus' sacrifice, we kneel before God in grateful praise, ready to do his will.