Alienated Now Reconciled

"And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled."  Colossians 1:21.  Oh, what a mighty act can be wrought by grace.  Alienated from God without a bridge.  Enemies of God without a mediator.  Wickedness had created the great divide.  Evil never works any good.  Man without the help of God.  Man engaged in war with God.  That is such a hopeless battle.  But, God acted.  God sought for the restoration of humanity unto Himself.  Christ became the Mediator.  His blood dissolved the sin.  Restoration was possible.  Man must come through faith.  Grace is ineffective without faith.  Faith is impossible without grace.  God offers reconciliation, and man must respond.  As God reaches forth His hand from heaven, we must take hold.  God pulls us from the fire.  God gives us a place in His house.  God gives to the one who is now reconciled food from His table and clothes from His closet.  The wicked worker is renewed.  Reconciliation makes new.  The old sinful self dies, and a new person is born.  Reconciliation gives back what has been lost.  Reconciliation restores friendship.  No longer alienated.  No longer enemies.  United with God, and friends with the Creator.