Friday, April 30, 2004

On another blog I commented on the subject of Reconciliation.  I thought I would open up the idea on ASPTL. In the letter to the Colossians the writer makes the statement that Christ has reconciled all things, things in heaven and things on earth.  Which makes me wonder about that. In the book "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" the author explores this idea without mentioning it by name.  In the book the main character, Eddie, dies in his 80's and important moments of his life are replayed through the story while he is meeting each of his five people.  During each of these individual meetings, Eddie relives many painful moments then learns the significance of each which brings personal healing to him. Keeping this thought in the back of your head, think about how you reconcile your check book each month (if you happen to do so).  You receive all the information the bank has about your account and you match it up with all the information you have about your account and you reconcile it or balance it.  You are able to make sense out of it; you know where you stand. I wonder if true reconciliation is not something like this, yet more personal and relational.   So often when we are hurt we are unable to see everything about the event and what caused it.  We often allow the event to communicate something negative and hurtful to us about ourselves which is not true, but makes "sense" to us at the time due to our lack of sight. What if true reconciliation; between us and God as well as between us and others; was that we were given the sight to see who we really are; beloved  and desired by the Father; and the sight to see what has caused the things that have hurt us, and our hurting others and we were able to "judge" between the true/real and that which if false/not real. What if this is what reconciliation and justification spoken of in Bible were all about.  Not some legal issue of satisfying a outside standard of righteousness.  But coming to see, in Christ, what is real, who we are and who God is and we are able to make sense and live in the truth with eyes wide open.  Then we could see all others the way they really are; beloved and desired by the Father; and the things they have done which have hurt us came not out of their being but out of their lack of sight and pain. What if we began to see folks that way now?  As I'm sure in some measure we do.  What if we could make central to our being that we are desired and beloved of our Father and what if we could see that in the face of Jesus?  The reconciliaton would truly be real. 6:01:55 AM

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