Reconciled to God

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Today is the Day of Atonement, also known as Yom Kippur. Today is like the close of the year or the major deadline on God's calendar. This day is a reminder for us that God has reconciled us to himself in Christ. To reconcile is to overcome distrust or hostility, to gain goodwill, harmony, or favor, to make agreeable, to resolve differences, and make one again. When you think of Atonement think of At - ONE - MENT. 

In accounting to reconcile is to balance and remove any differences or errors found. Here are some scriptures to meditate on about being reconciled to God. 

Romans 5:10-11...For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. Romans 5:10-11

Colossians 1:19-23...For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.  But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation— if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. 

2 Corinthians 5:17-21...Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 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, not counting people’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. 

In the Jewish culture today is typically a total fast until about 6pm with no food or water and then they break their fast with bagels. 

I am praying for you. 

Daniel

P.S. Down below is a video from the 7 Dates With Jesus course on the Day of Atonement. 

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