God created us to live in community with one another, but relationships can be messy. We long to belong, but often the people we are closest to are the ones who hurt us most. So what do we do? How do we deal with this tension? In a word, reconciliation.
Rest on Us
Maverick City Music
A Thousand Hallelujahs
Brooke Ligertwood
Son of Suffering
Bethel Music
In the Hands of Christ My King
Austin Stone Worship
There are a lot of ways to break a relationship, and there are a lot of ways to live through a broken relationship, but there is only one way to heal a broken relationship:
reconciliation.
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2 Corinthians 5:14-16
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again. So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
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2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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2 Corinthians 5:18-20
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
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Prayer Prompt
“Holy Spirit, show me where I have bitterness in my heart and give me the courage to forgive.”
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Prayer Prompt
“Holy Spirit, show me where I have pride in my heart and give me the courage to seek forgiveness.”
