The Greatest Gift - Colossians 1:21-22
Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds as expressed in your evil actions. But now he has reconciled you by his physical body through his death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before him... Colossians 1:21-22 Am I faultless? Alienated from God. Hostile to Him. Yes, I was once those things. And, to be honest, sometimes I forget myself and act like I am alienated from Him and hostile to Him now. That's silly and even tragic when I do. Because even as a believer it gets expressed as evil actions. It happened to David who got his friend's wife pregnant and then tried to cover it up by having him murdered. David was a godly man who allowed himself to drift into an alienated and hostile state of mind. But the point of this verse is that, I don't have to act the alienated part. I have been reconciled to God by his work on the cross. This is so I can be holy. Set apart. And faultless. Hang on. That doesn't sound like me at all. I have my faults. Clean