A CALL TO RECONCILIATION
The conclusion of this book is simple. We started by stating that we are all children
of God, in any of three ways or processes. We also said that the first one is for all
people, as we are all created by God. The next two however, require a choice and
a commitment at an individual level: From each of the seven billion plus
individuals on the planet today, and from each of the individuals who have gone
before us.
The first step, while making us children or people of God, does not guarantee us
salvation or heaven except maybe for the young children who have not reached
the age of understanding and choice (a mystery of God that we cannot explore
beyond that at this time).
Step two requires a conscious choice to be born again, to recognize Jesus as Lord
and Saviour, and allow Him to wash us clean with His life giving blood so we can
be welcomed back home by the Father in wondrous reconciliation and forgiveness.
Step three emanates from step two, and is a continuous, daily process of surrender
and choosing to live in a manner that is pleasing to God, to do the things that
glorify His name, and shun everything that dishonours Him. It is hiding ourselves
in God every day, and trusting that He will lead us and pick us up when we fail,
when we fall, because He is full of amazing and redeeming grace. It is recognizing
that as long as we are trusting, abiding and looking up to Him, repenting when
we fail Him and continuing on in our journey to heaven, we remain His children
and, some day soon, we shall be home, and we shall see Him face to face!
For, “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we
confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all
unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word
is not in us” (1 John 1: 8-10).
‘... And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own
blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.^ For here we
do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come. Through Jesus,
therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly