Christ the Reconciler

Its about time I wrote to you about Christ. For if you are to really live a Life of Truth, you need a guide. You need a reconciler. You need Christ.

My friend, God is infinite in His divine majesty. His thoughts, wisdom, knowledge, understanding, and Being is beyond comprehension of our half-ape like minds. He is so grand, full of glory, and grace. And when He asks us to live a Life of Truth, he sets on us a hard task: to be like Him!

Friend, how could we ever have a hope of being like God in his infinite capacity to love? Fortunately for us, He knew we would need some help. He sent us guides.

I've already introduced the Bible as being infallible, a book of Truths. This is a guide. Much like the Cliff's study notes, the Bible teaches us what God is really like -- in the printed word. Its a very resourceful book; a living testament of Truth. Its words don't change, but the interpretations of the passages evolve and blossom. We can find ways to God by reading sacred scripture.

But a book, by itself, wasn't all God had intended for a guide. No -- He wanted us to have something more real. Something physical, something that we could relate to, something easy for us to understand, something to compare ourselves against and ask, "I act a certain way, is this how God would act?"

I found this image that truly illustrates what I mean. You and I on the left are people who seek Him. God is on the right. Between us is a way in which we can reconcile our actions, His name is Christ. Christ is the reconciler. Being God's son, he knows God's Truths much better than either you or I. So, if you reconcile your actions with Christ's actions, that's as good as you can do if you with to reconcile yourself with God. He's a bridge. Compare your life to His, frequently. If you are like Christ, you are like God. If you are not like Christ, you are not like God.

This is our Christ, he forgives us as a matter of reconciling us. He looks at your actions and if they don't follow what God wants, he lets you ask for his forgiveness and then He reconciles you. Its time for an example.

If you stole a candy bar, and then later realized this is not what Christ wants you to do, you could seek forgiveness through reconcilement. You could say, "I know what I did isn't what you want God because Christ wouldn't do this. Forgive me. I want another chance to do differently next time. I want to change my actions to be more like Christ's actions so that I am more like you."

That, my friend, is a great act of humility and love. To admit that you don't know Truths, and you are helpless without a guide to ever find and know God. You humble yourself by admitting you need help in reconciling your actions. The response: you're forgiven for your wrong deeds and Christ will teach you to perform correct deeds.

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the whole world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. 2 Cor 5:17-19

And so I introduce Christ to you. In a Life of Truth, he is our ever loving reconciler. We follow him by changing our actions to become more like his actions in great hope and faith that He is leading us to God, leading us to Truth.