The Restoration Of All

Love Keeps No Record of Wrong

I want to continue with a topic I brushed up against in a previous post and that is the idea of all things and people being reconciled to God. The post to which I refer was an attempt to answer the question of the timing of Jesus' return, and in the passage we looked at was a reference to the restoration of all things!

Let's think about what has happened that gives credence to the idea of this complete restoration and what exactly is fueling it? Let's look at these few verses and just pull some thoughts from them.

"Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new person. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new. And God has made all things new, and reconciled us to himself, and given us the ministry of recoinciling others to God. In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God."-2 Corinthians 5:17-19 TPT

In and through Jesus,

God has made all things new!

The same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead,

lives in me and you!

The resurrection life (eternal life) of Jesus, is the life of the Age that is to come, that has come into the midst of time. Jesus, having conquered every foe even through death abolishing death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel ie. 2 Timothy 1:10.

This is what God was doing in Christ...RECONCILING the world unto himself. It doesn't read, God was reconciling himself to the world, because he didn't have the issue, we did! This was a big shift in my thinking! In fact this passage says that God was not keeping a record of our sins. Another version reads "...not imputing their trespasses against them...".

A phrase in 1 Corinthians 13:5 speaking of love sheds some light on this failure to keep a record. "...does not recon the evil..."-Literal Translation

Amplified speaking of this love renders it "...it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong]"

I really like the New Living Translation, it just puts it right out there "...it keeps no record of being wronged."

This is descriptive of the love that gave Himself for you and I and the whole cosmos, the created order. I'm sure you know the verse John 3:16 but I want to end this post with the very next verse.

"God did not send his Son into the world to judge and condemn the world, but to be its Savior and rescue it!"-John 3:17 TPT