When Christ enters your life He begins to order your mind

Jesus Christ is the Reconciler par excellence. He gives order to all things. And Pablo points out something very important here.

In Colossians 1:20 it says: "Reconciling all things, those that are in heaven as those that are in heaven." Remember that same language that He is the Creator of all things visible and invisible, those that are on the earth, those that are under the earth. Now he says that Jesus Christ also reconciles all things, those that are on earth and those that are in heaven.

Jesus Christ will one day establish order too. Even those demons and those principalities and powers that rebel against Him, He will also subject them and they will have to confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and Satan says that he will go to the lake of fire, to hell, he will no longer be making disorder. and more division and stronger, more loss in God's creation.

Paul also says that: "To us through the blood of His cross" interesting, right? that idea that the death of Jesus is what makes this reconciliation of all things possible. And then Paul, as he focuses specifically on man and us Christians, says: "And you also" verse 21 "who were once strangers and enemies in His mind doing evil deeds has also reconciled you."

The first thing that Jesus Christ does when he saves us is that he reconciles us to ourselves. The man without God, the man without Christ, the man who does not recognize what happened there on the cross of Calvary when Christ shed His blood and paid the price for our sin and in doing so satisfied the justice of God and then made possible a communication with the Father through Him, not only Christ saves us but also orders our inner world.

For me that is one of the most beautiful things about what Jesus Christ does in the life of a human being. When Christ enters your life He begins to order your mind. Without Christ you were an enemy of God, not only that but you were an enemy of yourself, you were doing bad things, things that are not appropriate as Paul says in the Epistle to the Romans, things that were for your evil, for your destruction, for your death, for your suffering. The man without God is always making terrible decisions both at the level of governments that do things that lead rather to death, injustice, war, poverty, the oppression of human beings because they do not have the mind of God, they do not have the mind of Christ.

When Christ enters a government, enters a city, enters a neighborhood, a social agency or a human institution or a human being, an individual He comes to order, to reconcile those things as well, making sure that the things that he does person or that entity are for their good and not for their evil.

The man without Christ is at war with himself, he is destroying himself, he is working against his own interests. When Christ comes, the first thing he does establishes peace between God and man, but also then he begins to order the elements that make up a man, his mind, his emotions, his spirit, all those wounds from the past, all those destructive habits, those attitudes. that lead to the suffering of their loved ones all that begins to be ordered. The Shalom of God enters human life, the peace of Christ begins to order the elements of human life.

That is the wonderful thing that Paul points out here that in His body of flesh the Lord through His death reconciles us with ourselves, before we were strangers and enemies and now we become adopted children of our Heavenly Father. In His body of flesh through His death He presents us before the Father without blemish and blameless. These men full of sin, bad habits and things that offend God are now seen through the lenses of the cross of Christ and the Father sees them as spotless, blameless, there is nothing to accuse them of because through Christ we are made perfect and accepted before the Father.

Wonderful image of what the Redemptive function of Jesus Christ is, it reconciles us with ourselves, reconciles us with God and presents us before the Father as perfectly accepted before Him. It says that if we truly remain founded and firm in faith, in another words there is an idea there that we also have to stand firm. What we have said, what we have confessed, what we have believed, we must not allow anything or anyone in this world to separate us. The Bible says endure to the end that will be saved.

We have received so much from God that we cannot help but stand firm in what we have believed and in what we have confessed before God. Let's keep our faith because it is a wonderful faith.

I hope that these ideas that Paul has presented in Colossians will help us to continue to believe in an absolutely powerful, glorious Christ full of gifts and blessings for our lives. What a wonderful Savior we have in Christ Jesus, may we always worship Him and remain very, very close to Him. It has been a pleasure for me to lead you through this meditation on these passages from Colossians and later on we will continue to delve in a very deep way. in this wonderful land that is the epistle to the Colossians. I say goodbye to you Pastor Roberto Miranda, until next time.