How To Reconnect Back To God?
BEGINNING IN PERFECT CONNECTION
The need to “reconnect” communicates that at one point, two connected things became disconnected. This takes us back to the Beginning: what we like to call the truly “good old days” when everything was right and good.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, everything that is. As a part of Creation, He made humankind as image-bearers of God and they lived in perfect relationship with the Creator and with one another. “Good” connection.
Our Sin Disconnects us from God
This perfect relationship was marred by sin. Sin is basic rebellion against God. Since the very first people to walk the earth rebelled against God’s command about how to live in the Garden, each person has been born into the sin nature. Regardless of how good we may be, we are not perfect. Indeed, we all know the truth of the passage that reminds us, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).
That betrayal of the relationship, that disobedience to God’s will, that human inclination to make our way and be our own god, caused a disruption in the connection between human beings and God. We went from knowing fully and being fully known to a constant “can you hear me now?” reality. We used to talk with God directly. That connection was broken. We used to walk with God personally. That connection was marred. We severed the relationship in ways that we cannot fix from our side and the cost of that disconnect includes the consequences of sin, in this life and in death. “The wages of sin is death” [spiritual separation from God] (Romans 6:23).
Jesus is the Way to Reconnect with God
Into the brokenness pours God’s grace– His unmerited favor, giving us what we don’t deserve and never could earn. Grace is the harmony of the attributes of God. Grace is the way in which God’s holiness and God’s mercy, God’s righteousness and God’s love, God’s power and God’s tenderness, God’s sovereignty and God’s open handedness, God’s hiddenness and God’s revelation, God’s very nature as God is expressed. And by grace, God expresses His graciousness in relationship to us.
In defense of His holiness, God could have left the line disconnected, but in His mercy and love, God poured Himself out in grace. ''That grace has a name, it is Jesus''.
“God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
Through Jesus Christ, God offers a reconnection. God offers each of us the opportunity to repent of our sin and have a reconciled, restored relationship with Him now and forevermore.
It’s a full coverage plan that’s paid in advance in full, by Christ. Never again will you have to ask “can you hear me now?” and never again will God have to ask you the same. The lines of communication will be clear and God promises to never leave us nor forsake us.
All you have to do to make that reconnection is to accept God’s gracious offer. Repent of Sin and repent of your sinfulness (the fact that the connection is broken), acknowledge that God has done everything necessary to restore that connection in and through Jesus Christ, and ask God to make that reconnect personally with you now and forevermore. God will answer that prayer immediately by sending the Holy Spirit into your heart and life. You will be reconnected to God and thus begins a new life in which you learn to walk with Him moment by moment, step by step, day by day. We call that discipleship.
One of the benefits of reconnecting with God through Jesus Christ is the restoration of the relationship with yourself. That may sound strange but the truth is that we were not designed to serve as our own point of integration. We are not gods but we make idols of ourselves and our own identity when we are disconnected from the True God in whom we find our real identity.
When we reconnect with God, Jesus becomes the point of integration for our lives. Colossians 1 expresses it this way, Jesus “is the image of the invisible God…by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
If you didn’t get all that, don’t fret. Here’s the gist:
God the Father wants to be reconnected with you. He provides that reconnection (reconciliation) through Jesus. Once you’re reconnected with Jesus, everything else starts to come together. If you’ve ever wondered why your life, your thoughts, your relationships are frazzled it’s because you were never meant to serve as your own point of integration. That’s Jesus’ job. He’s the one who holds it all together (Jesus Christ is the biological Laminin in our biological makeup). He puts things right between us and God, He puts us in our right mind, and he puts us right with other people.
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