ALC Conference Update

At this conference I was amazed by the extent of God’s Peace which is now in our lives.

I was blown away by the Sunday devotional: Colossians 1: 13-23.

From Colossians, we received that Christ is the image of the invisible God.

Through Christ God brings about His plan of Salvation for His Creation.

Through Christ we (humans) can have Salvation.

Through Christ Jesus we could really become the image of God that He had intended us to be since the beginning of creation.

Also it says that God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in him (Christ). God’s Peace is the fullness of God we can have through Christ. This is an amazing truth that no man can fully comprehend!

God’s fullness is His Love, His Goodness, His Order and much more than that! Although we can understand in part the Peace God gives us through Christ, the magnitude of His Peace, not only to us but to the Whole of Creation is too overwhelming for us and God’s Peace really is beyond our understanding.

Finally God’s Peace is His reconciliation with us through Christ. It says in the passage that: through Christ God reconciled to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His Son, shed on the cross. This reconciliation was God extending the reconciliation to us, by giving us His Son to take the penalty of our sins. So that we could be made Right with Him, and the dividing wall of hostility between us and God be removed.

When God looks at Christ’s blood His wrath is appeased and He is able to accept us into His presence. When we look at Christ’s blood, we understand God’s Love for us and recognize our own sins and that God’s will was to save us. Then we are able to come under Christ and so are made right with God. Our hearts and minds and very constitution are changed and we can experience the Wholeness of being or God’s Peace through Christ Jesus!

Furthermore, I received that we are to be ambassadors of God’s Peace to the world, bringing God’s Peace to all the peoples we come into contact with in our lives.