Reconciled to reconcile

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. - 2 Corinthians 5:18-19

God has reconciled to Himself. 

Wait just a second. Let's not miss that.  God, the holy, perfect, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, eternal, immortal, only wise creator and sustainer of the universe has reconciled sinful wicked men to Himself. 

Did you catch that? God has reconciled man to Himself. 

Let's look at that for a second. In the natural scheme of things there is a terrible imbalance on the books. God is love, but God is also just. That balances out, but man threw the books into inbalance when he sinned. Now the debit seems to outweigh the credit. God's love desires fellowship with creation, but his justice demands payment for sin. Something was needed to reconcile the books. 

One would think that the guilty party would be the one who would have to make the books right, but in this case the guilty party could no nothing. 

Quite a dilemma, huh? 

But not for God. He had a plan laid before the foundation of the world. 

He reconciled us to Himself by the death of His Son. As the great reconciler Jesus took the penalty that was required of balance the sin debt. 

And what does he want us to do about it? He has made us to be ministers of that reconciliation to bring his message to those around us. God took the amazing step of reconciling us to Himself through the death of his Son so that we can be used to bring others to reconciliation. 

Praise our great Reconciler!