The reconciliation of human beings to God is the most important activity occurring in the world today. It is God’s great project which he privileges those who are reconciled to God to participate in with God. Being reconciled to God is a matter of being persuaded to love God. What has the greatest power to persuade us to love God? Is it not the belief that God is good, that God loves us? This seems clear upon reflection. Moreover, it is the plainest teaching of God’s revelation. According to this revelation, nothing evinces God’s goodness and love for us like God’s sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf, and therefore nothing has the power to reconcile us to God, to persuade us to love God, like God’s sacrifice of Jesus on our behalf. Therefore, if the reconciliation of human beings to God is the most important activity occurring in the world today, then the most critical activity occurring in the world today is activity that shows that God is good, and the most destructive activity occurring in the world today is any activity that obscures God’s goodness. And therefore it is clear to what those who are reconciled to God should devote their greatest energies. They should devote their greatest energies to showing, in word and deed, that God is good and/or to negating activity, in particular false teaching about God, that obscures the goodness of God. And since their reconciliation to God is an ongoing affair, they should devote themselves to doing this not only for others but also for themselves. The latter they do principally by prayer and study.
08 Wednesday Mar 2017
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