Enemies Are Reconciled

"And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled."  Colossians 1:21.  Wicked works will make us the enemy of God.  The very character of God is such that is opposed to evil.  When one chooses to walk in the way of wickedness, that one becomes alienated from God.  To be alienated from God means to be cut off from God.  All such are the enemies of God because evil opposes God and fights against God.  God commissioned Jesus Christ to reconcile that condition.  In Christ, we become the friends of God.  Jesus through His power enables us to overcome evil.  When one is reconciled unto God, that one chooses to walk in the way of God and always do that which is pleasing to God.  Reconciliation means that we are redeemed of God, and all wickedness committed by us in the past has been forgiven.  Reconciliation means that we seek after God, and to possess His character in our lives.  The reconciled walk in the way of God, and oppose evil even as God does.  No longer alienated, but reconciled.  No longer an enemy, but a friend.