RECONCILIATION is life’s end point if God has anything to do
with it. That all transactions would
have their logical conclusion in it, and all truth would be requited fairly and
justly; that above all, love would abound, one for another.
I’ve taken to the term when it’s time to turn back home as
a way of describing this reconciliation balancing act.
Reconciliation has reached its aim when someone has recognised
their need to set things straight on their own account. Reconciliation always puts relationships and
situations more together, bringing life to the fullest fulfilment of hope, joy
and peace. Life’s not about
division. It’s about integration. It’s about inclusion. And it’s about results and outcomes that
prove better than anyone involved could have imagined, because only God can do
that.
God’s best miracles are the relationships
He puts back together, where kindness,
empathy and understanding shine forth.
He puts back together, where kindness,
empathy and understanding shine forth.
Turning back home occurs when we realise we’re wrong about
something. Or, it involves knowing
someone else was wrong, but that wrong is forgiven them; that we rise above
that wrong to love them anyway, because we understand how prone we are to being
wrong. Turning back home occurs when we’re
ready to make a heartfelt apology, make amends, do better next time, and seek
forgiveness.
Turning back home occurs when we realise that staying depressed
or in grief involves more pain than the pain of changing; of lifting out of the
mire. (Which is no slight against
clinical varieties of mental illness, for which nobody should judge, and only
the qualified should advise. Nor is it a
slight on those who have experienced excruciating loss, for which grief is the
normal and necessary response.)
Turning back home occurs when God has spoken, even in rebuke, and
we receive correction with a glad heart profited to growth.
Turning back home is repentance — to change tack by 180 degrees,
with immediacy of attitude and alignment of behaviour.
We enter a time of turning back home at salvation — every moment
henceforth is to be a step in the right direction. That inevitably leads to many challenging
events and situations, some humiliating, some inspiring, all learning.
***
How delighted must all heaven’s host be when we finally turn
back home!
Christian faith is about endeavouring to please God within
Christian community.
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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