The Holy one calls to me this morning. His invitation to worship is in the early atmosphere around me. Mixed with the symphony of the forest, is the sweet voice of the Holy Spirit.
He calls me to celebrate His life within me Even as the darkness outside awaits the sun to chase it away, my soul needs the Presence of the Holy Spirit to illuminate my being and turn the darkness into light.
In the peace of this time with my Lord, I realize that worship is an eternal condition, not reserved for the days of white robes and well orchestrated voices. Worship is personal. Worship is the heart's song: the deepest gratitude and thanksgiving that can be expressed to the Author of that "heart song".
When I ponder this eternal moment and the wonder of what it means, the word"reconciliation" brings a much more extravagant understanding and definition than I have found in any mental assent I have undertaken in the past.
The word itself means, "to make friendly", "to make constant, "to make content". Jesus came to bring reconciliation between the Creator and the created separated by the darkness of spiritual death at the fall of man. Jesus came to bring us back to the relational unity with God that Adam and Eve had before they buckled to independent rebellion.
The Holy Spirit is the One who makes what Jesus did (on the Cross) a matter of human reconciliation with the Divine possible and peace with God a reality. My journey with Jesus today finds me in a garden of peace and joy sharing in the celebration of life...His life.
Beyond the hardship and conditions of worldly circumstances there is offered a place of safety and rest. The great exchange was made in my life many years ago. I gave Him my life in exchange for His. My unrighteousness was exchanged for His righteousness. The Creator witnessed the exchange and approved the contract signed in His Holy Blood. Reconciliation with God happened on that day and we have been in relational unity ever since.
While the transaction with Holiness has taken place, for many there is a failure to realize the benefits and responsibilities in this reconciliation. Many still act as if God is our enemy and not our friend. Worship today reminds me of the Honor due the one who reached out to me and made the Sacred Romance with Him possible.
I know that in a little while the sun will come up. In an hour of earth time, life will rev into action and we will need to meet it with who we are.
The Holy One gently poses His question of this day in my life: "As you move into the clock and calendar of earth time, will you remember this eternal moment and allow it to change you? Will you be my minister of reconciliation and share my peace with your world? Will you be a temple or a tomb for the life of Christ who dwells within you?
2 Corinth 5:18 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone the new has come. All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ and not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God."
That is the Great Exchange....and reconciliation with the Sovereign God of all Creation is the reality once we accept it for ourselves.
His question today requires a decision and a choice is made.
Reconciliation with the one who gave me life deserves to be the Light and Life shining out of a temple...not one left sealed in a tomb.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
He calls me to celebrate His life within me Even as the darkness outside awaits the sun to chase it away, my soul needs the Presence of the Holy Spirit to illuminate my being and turn the darkness into light.
In the peace of this time with my Lord, I realize that worship is an eternal condition, not reserved for the days of white robes and well orchestrated voices. Worship is personal. Worship is the heart's song: the deepest gratitude and thanksgiving that can be expressed to the Author of that "heart song".
When I ponder this eternal moment and the wonder of what it means, the word"reconciliation" brings a much more extravagant understanding and definition than I have found in any mental assent I have undertaken in the past.
The word itself means, "to make friendly", "to make constant, "to make content". Jesus came to bring reconciliation between the Creator and the created separated by the darkness of spiritual death at the fall of man. Jesus came to bring us back to the relational unity with God that Adam and Eve had before they buckled to independent rebellion.
The Holy Spirit is the One who makes what Jesus did (on the Cross) a matter of human reconciliation with the Divine possible and peace with God a reality. My journey with Jesus today finds me in a garden of peace and joy sharing in the celebration of life...His life.
Beyond the hardship and conditions of worldly circumstances there is offered a place of safety and rest. The great exchange was made in my life many years ago. I gave Him my life in exchange for His. My unrighteousness was exchanged for His righteousness. The Creator witnessed the exchange and approved the contract signed in His Holy Blood. Reconciliation with God happened on that day and we have been in relational unity ever since.
While the transaction with Holiness has taken place, for many there is a failure to realize the benefits and responsibilities in this reconciliation. Many still act as if God is our enemy and not our friend. Worship today reminds me of the Honor due the one who reached out to me and made the Sacred Romance with Him possible.
I know that in a little while the sun will come up. In an hour of earth time, life will rev into action and we will need to meet it with who we are.
The Holy One gently poses His question of this day in my life: "As you move into the clock and calendar of earth time, will you remember this eternal moment and allow it to change you? Will you be my minister of reconciliation and share my peace with your world? Will you be a temple or a tomb for the life of Christ who dwells within you?
2 Corinth 5:18 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone the new has come. All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ and not counting men's sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors as though God were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God."
That is the Great Exchange....and reconciliation with the Sovereign God of all Creation is the reality once we accept it for ourselves.
His question today requires a decision and a choice is made.
Reconciliation with the one who gave me life deserves to be the Light and Life shining out of a temple...not one left sealed in a tomb.
The Spirit is calling. Can you hear Him?
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