Reconciled

For God in all his fullness
    was pleased to live in Christ,
and through him God reconciled
    everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
    by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.

Colossians 1:19-20 

 

For the longest time, I had difficulty understanding how God, being perfect, could or would have any interest in getting us to Heaven.  Over many years, it has finally sunk in!  God IS love!  And because He IS love, He loves us so much that He created the way for us to experience Heaven.

 

Think about it, the same God who created all things, loves us so much that He entered this world.  In a feed trough in a barn, God became incarnate in Jesus.  The love God has for us flowed through this carpenter, Jesus, who, at the right time, paid our price to Heaven. 

 

"For God in all His fullness was pleased to live in Christ..." what an awesome statement!  God was pleased to live among us through Jesus.  Not only that, "through [Jesus] God reconciled everything to Himself."  The greatest Christmas gift ever didn't come from a store, but from the very heart of God!