Here’s a quick lesson in reconciling:
Most of you have some type of bank account, and every month you receive a statement from the bank showing the pluses and minuses for the month. Now whether you do it or not, the bank sends you that statement so you can reconcile your information with what they have on file.
Reconciling is not about making up facts and figures to make your checkbook say what you want it to say. Reconciling with the bank means you have to make adjustments to your records to match what their books say.
In other words, the word “reconcile” is an accounting term which means to bring into agreement or harmony with the main account.
Well, the good news is:
“For it pleased the Father that in Him [Jesus] all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind, by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, TO PRESENT YOU HOLY, AND BLAMELESS, AND ABOVE REPROACH in His sight–” (Colossians 1:19-22).
I don’t care what you think about yourself (what your account says) because what matters is what God’s account says!
You have been reconciled to Heaven through Jesus Christ! And His account says you have been made holy, blameless, and above reproach IN HIS SIGHT.
So do the math—
These aren’t made-up facts and figures. This is what the Bible says about you and I –we’ve been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians 5:21). In Christ, you are more than you think you are. Hebrews 8:12 says, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Whereas you and I have calculated all our sins as minuses that disqualify us from receiving anything good from God, He did the opposite. God took His eraser and balanced His books with our faith in Jesus Christ!
This is why the Bible says, “And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled” (Colossians 1:21). In “our mind” the books were against us. But in HIS MIND (the mind of God), we’ve been made righteous in Christ.
It’s time to put your pencil down and trust the One who writes the script. “[For] now there is nothing between you and Father God, for he sees you as holy, flawless, and restored” Colossians 1:22 TPT). The math is correct.
