He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.
This includes you who were once far away from God.
You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.
Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body.
As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Colossians 1:20-22
with God, we are meant to be people of integrity, the same on the inside as we are on the outside.
But sin has driven a wedge into our lives, creating an internal rift that alienates us from ourselves, from others, and from God.
It’s what makes us want to hide, to wear masks that make us look better and less broken than we are.
The wholeness and integrity that God has for us, on the other hand, eliminates the need for deceit because we have nothing to hide.
This is the internal peace, the shalom that Christ brings us as we continue to yield our lives to him, healing the divisions within us so that we can have peace with God, with others, and with ourselves.
As you pray for God’s peace today, ask for the grace to admit your brokenness. Ask, too, for the faith to believe that God will heal you and make you whole.
Lord, you breathed life into the first man and the first woman. They were your perfect creations. In the midst of my brokenness, breathe your life. Heal me and make me whole, I pray.
