When does God require complete conciliation?

When does God require complete conciliation?

How easy it is to continue sinning knowing God’s Mercy is but a Gnat’s eyelash away.  Sin and seek God’s Mercy and feel the love that God always forgives.

One casual habit most people perform is to commit sin to any degree and just pass it off as part of the human portrayal of life.  There was a period in human history when we made a serious mistake hurting other people and especially ignoring God the way we turned away from him.

Listen to the many people who are fed up with all the direct advantages some politicians or humanists treat the common population.  “Why”, they ask,”has God not brought an end to the persecution of the citizens and finally put this waiting for Jesus to return and take us home?”

Look at history and bring the holocaust with the Nazi regime into focus, destroying many millions of innocent persons, or the many other dictators like Assad using chemicals on his own people in Syria and laughing about how powerful he has become.  History has recorded untold demonic actions that leaders who have no regard for God and the opportunity to be a leader for the sake of goodness absorb the evil that surrounds their seat in governing.

To answer the many questions regarding how God allows these leaders to continue being perpetrators of evil on innocent persons, we need to look at some of the parables Jesus told his disciples and the Scribes and Pharisees.  When the younger of two sons wanted his share of the inheritance the father did not stop him with fatherly advice.  He allowed the wayward son to go his way, always hoping for his son’s return.

One day, as the father was looking towards the attraction of sin the son went to enjoy he caught a glimpse of this son hurting, ashamed, and crawling towards the home of safety and security he once knew sheepishly returning.  What were his sins or how much of his inheritance was left?  The father did not care.  His son sought through a loss of sin the real meaning of God’s love.  The truth that God is Love is all he needed.  (cf 1 Jn 4: 7:  ff).

Seems too easy or unfair for those of us who never sinned (not true) and watch as sin continues to evade goodness and the peace promised us.  What if the father would have brought down punishment on his wayward son, or as a matter of fact brought anger on the older son who never did wrong in his father’s eyes?  He also sinned by not forgiving his brother.

Why does God not require conciliation from any of us until the very last moment we take our last breath?  God’s plan to share his life and love with all of his creatures is the desire of a creator who planned that not one of his creatures be lost.  Remember in God’s eyes one sin is as bad as another.  He will not categorize sin.  All sin is evil in his eyes and no matter what it is we may have broken with God he will forgive each of us if we like the Prodigal Son return seeking mercy.  Of course, some sins are too horrible such as child sacrifice, but it is the amount of conciliation the sinner offers to God that will matter in the end.  That is what conciliation will be required.

Ralph B. Hathaway