RECONCILED TO GOD | Colossians 1:22

I want to read a verse of scripture and then tell a story, and it all has to do with how God sees you as a follower of Jesus.

First the scripture, Colossians 1:22. Christ has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy, blameless, and irreproachable before him. And that's how God looks at you as a follower of Jesus. Christ has reconciled you to God.

Now, a story... My first experience of reconciliation happened when I was a young man and I opened my first checking account. Now, just keep in mind that this would have been long before online banking. When at the end of the month, I receive my bank statement in the mail, and I'm eagerly anxiously tearing open the envelope and there is my balance, there it is, how much money the bank says, I have... Now, I have to set about reconciling my checkbook to the bank's balance, so I add up all my outstanding checks that have not yet cleared the bank. I add in the fees and I come up with my balance, but there's a problem in that what I have is my balance... Well, it doesn't seem to agree with the bank balance. And this is the first time I'm doing it and I'm sure that the bank has to be wrong. Well, it's the bank that is obviously made the mistake, and so what I do is I go back, I again, add up the outstanding checks I add in the fees, I recheck my numbers, and what I am doing is I am reconciling my checkbook. That is, I am bringing my checkbook into an agreement, in harmony with what the bank says, my balance is... We call this reconciling.

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