If you are looking for a miracle today, look no further- you are reconciled to God (or can be)! This is the good news, the gospel. Just the word itself, reconcile, is stirring! It comes from Latin, meaning to bring back together. In this verse, it celebrates God bringing us back into union or friendship with him. Reconciliation brings us back to our designed stations – God as our King and we as his content and submissive creation, loved and made in his image.

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Once we were in perfect union with God, walking and talking with him. Mankind participated in the naming of the animals at creation; we enjoyed friendship with God. That is, until our decision to no longer trust or obey his best. (You can read about this in Gen. 3) Our affections had been for him and his will, until we alienated ourselves, and our thoughts turned against him (Col. 1:21).

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But Love waits.

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Time and time again, we rebelled, but he continued to want our best, he continued to love. His mind was made up about us. He would make a way. In our rebelliousness, we tried to take his rightful place as King and attempted to strip him to a figment – nothing but myth. We said we knew better, that he was keeping good things from us; we made him our enemy.

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And so, we, the weak, declared we are strong on our own. The offender proclaimed victimhood, puffing ourselves up, as if we could change the natural order of things with a tantrum, a proverbial stamping of the foot.

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Longsuffering Love waits.

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We were throwing ourselves against truth, trying to break it and only destroying ourselves.

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And waits.

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But after our sin, after the Fall, we had an even bigger problem we couldn’t fix, and we had made an enemy of the only One who could. We were powerless to reconcile, to bring ourselves back together with our Creator – as powerless as the dead. We were cold and in the grave of sin.  

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Or, maybe, you’re there now.

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Love waits for you.

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The truly crazy part about all this is that the One who was betrayed is the One who gave everything to make a way! While mankind continued to mock and spew hate and lies, God gave up everything. We were the ones who needed saving, and we turned away, demanding our own way. He is the Master of the universe and went down to the dust, for us…for you.

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And He still waits.

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He has made a way for freedom, for friendship, forgiveness, love…for life.

Have you celebrated reconciliation between yourself and God? You can today, right now! If you believe in Jesus and the sacrificial love that he displayed for you on the cross and tell him you will follow him in this love, you are reconciled! That’s right, just talk to him from your heart. Tell him all your fears, worries. and troubles and then thank him because he walks with you. Problems don’t magically go away, but you have a friend in the middle of them; you aren’t alone. Take the gift that he has given you and put it to good use. As the beginning of our verse says, you are an ambassador and now make the appeal to others to be reconciled to God!