How do we work for
reconciliation? First and foremost by claiming for ourselves that God
through Christ has reconciled us to God. It is not enough to believe
this with our heads. We have to let the truth of this reconciliation
permeate every part of our beings. As long as we are not fully and
thoroughly convinced that we have been reconciled with God, that we are
forgiven, that we have received new hearts, new spirits, new eyes to
see, and new ears to hear, we continue to create divisions among people
because we expect from them a healing power they do not possess.
Only
when we fully trust that we belong to God and can find in our
relationship with God all that we need for our minds, hearts, and souls,
can we be truly free in this world and be ministers of
reconciliation. This is not easy; we readily fall back into self-doubt
and self-rejection. We need to be constantly reminded through God's
Word, the sacraments, and the love of our neighbours that we are indeed
reconciled.
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