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Reconciliation
What a word that keeps coming up for us at Faith.
Reconciliation is the restoration of peace.
Peace with God, peace with others and peace in our own hearts.
It is a powerful miracle cure for broken lives and relationships.
Reconciliation defuses conflict and turns chaos into calmness.
It quiets quarrels.
It swamps stress for God’s serenity, turns tension into tranquility, and produces peace of mind instead of panic or pressure.
A third purpose of Christmas is reconciliation!
To the shepherds of Bethlehem the third announcement of the angel concerned the arrival of the “Prince of Peace”.
Jesus would not only teach the way to peace but would empower us to live the lives of peace if we would trust Him.
Is peace on earth something that is really possible or is it an unattainable fantasy?
Good will toward men - possible when current culture conditions us to be cynical and sarcastic, to use put-downs and name calling to demean and demonize those who believe differently?
We often make demands of others instead of looking to God.
No human being can fully meet all your needs.
That’s a job for God.
The answer is pray more and complain and quarrel less.
If this is our practice we would have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.
Jesus offers you peace with God
God created us to live for His purposes but we have been living in rebellion against God.
The Bible states this is a universal problem.
The symptoms of being at war or in rebellion against God are easy to spot:
irritability
quick temper
insecurity
impatience
manipulation
arrogance
boasting
holding grudges
other habits that the Bible calls “works of the flesh”
The effects of being reconciled with God - being at peace with Him - are all the qualities we need to have in our lives.
Nothing else can compensate for a broken relationship with God.
The good news of Christmas is that Jesus came to be the bridge of reconciliation between us and God.
Peace comes from surrender - total, unconditional surrender to God.
We need to admit that God is God and we are not!
We give up the rebellious attitude and surrender to Him!
Jesus offers you the Peace of God
Once we make peace with God we will then experience His peace.
The more you pray, the less you panic.
The more you worship the less you worry.
You will feel more patient and less pressured.
What robs you of your peace?
Most of the culprits fall into three categories:
Uncontrollable circumstances (illness, layoffs & deaths)
Unchangeable people (those who refuse to cooperate with your plan to change them)
Unexplainable problems (when life seems unfair)
The path to peace comes through living and enjoying one day at a time, accepting what you cannot be changed instead of worrying about it, trusting in God’s love, care, wisdom and surrendering to God’s plan for your life.
Jesus shows you how to make peace with others
Once you have experience peace with God and you begin to experience the peace of God in your heart.
God wants to us to experience the joy of being at peace with all the people in our lives.
As Christians we should be at peace with all the people in our lives.
If not we are to work out the issue.
Go to the brother or sister and talk it through and forgive.
Our place is not to talk about the issue with anyone other than the one it is with.
If you try to resolve the issue but reconciliation was rejected then you have done what you could do.
God gives us the desire, then the ability and power, to reconcile with the people in your life with whom you’ve had conflicts.
Would you like God’s blessing on your life?
Anytime you attempt to restore a broken relationship, you are doing what God would do.
And when you help bring other people together you are doing a ministry of reconciliation.
God looks down and says that’s my boy or that’s my girl.
What does it mean to be a peace maker?
It’s not running from the problem or pretending it doesn’t exist.
Peacemaking is not going with the flow or appeasing the crowd.
To work for peace you actively seek to end conflicts, take initiative in promoting reconciliation when relationships break down, and you offer forgiveness to those who have hurt you.
We are to pass onto others the same grace that God has shown us.
We as the church are called to bring people together instead of dividing them.
Reconciliation ends hostility.
It does not mean you have resolved all the problems in the relationship.
You bury the hatchet not the issue.
You continue to talk about the issues and work on them, but do it in respect and love and not sarcasm and anger.
You can disagree agreeably.
Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem.
There is a big difference between forgiveness and trust.
Forgiveness is to be instant and free.
The same was Christ offers it to us.
Restoring trust is a different matter.
Forgiveness takes care of the past.
Trust is all about the future.
Trust can be lost in a second, but it takes a long time to rebuild it.
Christmas is the season of Peace on Earth Good will toward men.
It is the perfect time to offer the gift of grace to others, while celebrating the grace God has shown us.
Who do you need to make peace with?
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