Reconcilialtion Part 2

We have been alienated from God ever since because all of us have sinned. God is omniscient; he is all knowing. Nobody else may know what your doing or what you have done God knows. (Spirit) God cannot say that he does not have knowledge of our sins, so he says that he chooses to forget them. His reaction would ordinarily be one of outrage, or the pouring out of his wrath. But instead of sending his wrath he sent his Son. Jesus birth was a miracle, oh thank you God for his birth. His birth was not enough. We needed more. God gave us something holy, something sinless, and something blameless, he gave us grace, and he gave us mercy. He gave us his Son Jesus. Jesus lived in fully in righteousness with God. God made Jesus “to be sin” even though he “knew no sin”. (Spirit) While Jesus was being crucified God treated Jesus as if he were sin itself, banishing Jesus from his own holy presence. On the Cross he bore the ultimate penalty for sin, not just a painful human death, but spiritual separation from God the father.
He didn’t just get spat upon, no he didn’t just get whipped and beaten, no he didn’t just get a crown of thorns placed upon his head, no he didn’t just get hammered to the cross. He had to become sin!!!!! His teachings were not enough, all of the miracles, all of the healings; his sinless life was not enough. From God’s perspective, it wouldn’t be enough. Sin is such an offense to God and his holiness that it can’t be ignored or overlooked. Sin demands justice. We tend to minimize the vileness of sin. God does not do this, and neither should we. Oh I love how the Message translation puts it in Romans 5:10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!
The great miracle of reconciliation is that God chose not to hold each of us accountable for our sin, but instead to lay the penalty for our sin on Jesus.

Have you ever been at a point in your relationships, that there is so much hurt, so much confusion, and so much bitterness that you just can’t see clearly. Every step you take is based on what you’re feeling. Everything is cloudy. You struggle with going home from work. You look forward to going to work. Or the communication is just out of wack. No matter what you say or do, you feel like your lighting a fuse. I am talking about struggling in your relationships. Oh you know what I am talking about, Or the flipside when everything is going smooth for a few weeks and everything is good. Things get rough then it gets smooth again. Then out of the blue it’s bad again. Its not out of the blue, yeah you may have forgiven each other. Yet things are still are not right, the same cycle takes place again and again. Then we start looking for different ways of fixing things. We search every avenue that we can think of from. Then we say its not me, I haven’t done nothing, they the ones who acting like they don’t know Jesus. Let me call so and so on the phone cause I need somebody to listen, (no what you want is somebody who is going to agree with you). We will call everybody and they Momma. If we don’t get the response we are looking for we keep looking. It is so difficult to reconcile with someone who is being stubborn, spiteful, disrespectful, rude, and selfish. It takes everything you have to do try to get things in where they are some what peaceful. We shouldn’t be surprised when our peace efforts fail us. We cannot expect our relationships down here on earth to go right if our relationship with God is not right. We have to look at our relationships upwards in order to have successful relationships down here.