Romans 10:9-10 (NLT): If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by openly declaring your faith that you are saved.
Have you ever felt like you need to be reconciled to God?
Don’t worry, most people feel this way at some point in their lives. You are not alone. Jesus Christ came so that you can be reconciled to God.
How Does Sin Affect Us?
Adam disobeyed God and sin entered the world. Sin separates you from God and brings a fearful expectation of judgement. Once sins are taken away, then the fearful expectation of judgement is removed and an excitement of Christ’s return comes. Sin brings condemnation, guilt, and shame. However, Christ brings the opposite which is reconciliation back to God.
John 3:19 “And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
What Is Reconciliation?
The process of reconciliation is the restoration of a relationship. Due to sin, your relationship with God was broken because God does not condone iniquity. The cross and blood of Jesus reverses this broken relationship and brings you closer to God. His blood wipes away your sins and has power to restore you back to God.
Ephesians 2:13 “But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.”
How Did Christ Reconcile?
Jesus placed the sins of the world upon Himself. On the cross, He took away your sins. His obedience to God by dying on the cross brought you an opportunity for reconciliation. Jesus has made a way for every sinner to become righteous by faith in him. Jesus takes every condemned person and makes them a righteous person. In other words, Jesus takes those sentenced to death and gives them life in exchange.
Romans 5:19 “For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”
How Can You Be Reconciled?
Through faith in Jesus, you can call God Father and become his child. Having faith in Christ is believing and accepting as true all of the things He did for you. Accept your sinfulness and believe that Christ came to this world to die to wash away your sins and that He rose again from the dead to make you right with God.
2 Corinthians 5:19 – that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
Romans 4:25 – He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised to life to make us right with God.
PRAYER: Dear Father, I repent of all my sins and believe that Jesus died for me. Please help me to always trust in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross for me. Give me the grace to live a life that is holy and always pleasing to you in Jesus name. Amen.