When Christ Enters Your Life, He Begins to Bring Order to Your Mind

Jesus Christ is the Reconciler par excellence. He brings order to all things. And Paul points out something very important here.

In Colossians 1:20 it says: “Reconciling all things, both those in heaven and those in the heavens.” Remember that same language saying that He is the Creator of all things, visible and invisible, those on earth and those beneath the earth. Now it says that Jesus Christ also reconciles all things, those on earth and those in the heavens.

One day Jesus Christ will also establish order. Even those demons and those principalities and powers that rebel against Him—He will also subject them, and they will have to confess that Jesus Christ is the Son of God; and as for Satan, it says that he will go to the lake of fire, to hell. He will no longer be causing more disorder and more division and more force, more loss in God’s creation.

Paul also says: “For us, through the blood of His cross”—interesting, isn’t it?—that idea that Jesus’ death is what makes possible this reconciliation of all things. And then Paul sort of focuses specifically on humanity and on us Christians. He says: “And you also,” verse 21, “who were once estranged and enemies in your mind, doing evil deeds, He has also reconciled.”

The first thing Jesus Christ does when He saves us is reconcile us with ourselves. The person without God, the person without Christ, the person who does not recognize what happened there on the cross of Calvary, when Christ shed His blood and paid the price for our sin and, in doing so, satisfied God’s justice and thus made communication with the Father possible through Him—not only does Christ save us, but He also brings order to our inner world.

To me, that is one of the most beautiful things about what Jesus Christ does in a human being’s life. When Christ enters your life, He begins to bring order to your mind. Without Christ, you were an enemy of God; not only that, but you were your own enemy. You were doing evil things, things that are not beneficial, as Paul says in the Epistle to the Romans—things that were for your harm, for your destruction, for your death, for your suffering. People without God are always making terrible decisions, even at the level of governments, which do things that lead instead to death, injustice, war, poverty, and the oppression of human beings, because they do not have the mind of God; they do not have the mind of Christ.

When Christ enters a government, enters a city, enters a neighborhood, a social agency, a human institution, or a human being—an individual—He comes to bring order and to reconcile those things as well, making sure that what that person or entity does is for its good and not for its harm.

The person without Christ is at war with himself, destroying himself and acting against his own interests. When Christ comes, the first thing He does is establish peace between God and man, but then He also begins to bring order to the elements that make up a person: his mind, his emotions, his spirit, all those wounds from the past, all those destructive habits, those attitudes that cause his loved ones to suffer—all of that begins to be put in order. God’s shalom enters human life; the peace of Christ begins to bring order to the elements of a human being’s life.

That is the wonderful thing Paul points out here: that in His body of flesh, through His death, the Lord reconciles us with ourselves. Before, we were estranged and enemies, and now we become adopted children of our Heavenly Father. In His body of flesh, through His death, He presents us before the Father without blemish and blameless. These people, full of sin, bad habits, and things that offend God, are now seen through the lens of the cross of Christ, and the Father sees them as without blemish and blameless. There is nothing for which to accuse them, because through Christ we are made perfect and accepted before the Father.

What a wonderful picture of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ: He reconciles us with ourselves, reconciles us with God, and presents us before the Father as perfectly accepted in His sight. It says that this is so if we truly remain grounded and steadfast in the faith; in other words, there is also an idea there that we must stand firm. We must not allow anything or anyone in this world to turn us away from what we have said, what we have confessed, and what we have believed. The Bible says that the one who perseveres to the end will be saved.

We have received so many things from God that we cannot do anything less than remain firm in what we have believed and what we have confessed before God. Let us hold on to our faith, because it is a wonderful faith.

I hope that these ideas Paul has presented in Colossians will help us continue believing in an absolutely powerful and glorious Christ who is full of gifts and blessings for our lives. What a wonderful Savior we have in Christ Jesus! May we always worship Him and remain very, very close to Him. It has been a pleasure for me to guide you through this meditation on these passages from Colossians, and later we will continue digging very deeply into this wonderful ground that is the Epistle to the Colossians. This is Pastor Roberto Miranda saying goodbye. Until next time.