As I was listening to my father's sermon online, the Lord put it on my heart to begin posting pieces of them kind of like a devotional. I pray God continues to use my dad to bring souls to Christ and proclaim His name.
Colossians 1:21,22 - “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now
reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you
holy and blameless and above reproach before Him.”
What He did in removing the offense of
reconciliation is SO entire, SO complete, SO final that He can
present us before God without any blame, without any reproach; It's ALL been removed! All the offenses, all the sins that would breach
us are gone! He can present us faultless in Christ, not faultless in
ourselves.
How, How do we not cherish Him? How do we not serve
Him? How do we not love Him? How? And how, how – when we are
offended – we say, “you know they offended me man, let me tell
you what they did, and I'm hurt”, how do we not say to them, “What
did you do and did I do anything to cause you to do that? Was there
anything that I might have done to precipitate this? Take what's out
of your eye first – the log, and then you get the speck out of your
brother's. How do you just lay in to someone without fist saying, “
did I do anything to create this thing? Was there anything on my
side?” You say, “I don't want to do that, why should I have to
do that?”
He did it ALL friends! He took away your offense! How
can we NOT approach people that way and say, did I do anything to
make this breach? Was there anything on my side that caused this,
even a little bit? Now you already know in your mind what's on their
side and it's huge to you. That's not the issue. The issue is this:
If Christ approached you this way, how can you not approach people
that way? How do we do this?? We forget what He did for us.
Oh what a Savior! Oh Lord You came our way, You went to us, the
angry rebel that spit in your face and didn't even know it. We say
“what do You want? Hey get out of my life!” Children of wrath..
and You reconciled us. We should be in the dust. Who are we? Who do
we think we are? Please forgive us, forgive every one of us. Amen.
