Libyans Are Trying To Forgive And Reconcile!

I'm always on the lookout for articles about forgiveness. I visited an Arab/Muslim newsite the other day that had a very interesting article about Libya in the wake of the recent revolution. Here is an excerpt from that article...

Political and religious leaders from across Libya gathered in Tripoli on Saturday (December 10th) for a national reconciliation conference.

"We are capable of forgiveness and tolerance," said Mustafa Abdel Jalil, head of the National Transitional Council (NTC). "We are capable of absorbing our brothers who fought the rebels and also capable of absorbing every person who committed an act or words against this revolution."

I don't know about you but the phrase that caught my eye was "national reconciliation conference". I hope they can pull it off in Libya, most of the other Arab revolutions have resulted in extermination of a lot of the loyalist supporters. Their intentions are great and I wish them the best but this phrase caused me to think of a far more grand reconciliation conference. The Bible tells us that before the foundation of the world God the Father and God the Son conferenced on the rescue measures that would be needed to snatch sinful men from an eternity in Hell. In their deliberations they decided that Jesus Christ Himself would come to this earth as a man, live a sinless life, be crucified by sinful men and then rise from the dead! Christ Himself would make the payment for the sins of men and thus "reconciliation" could be possible between God and man. Here is how the Apostle Paul describes it...

2 Corinthians 5:18

¹⁸And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Jesus Christ by His shed blood at Calvary has reconciled us to God and He has given to us the ministry of reconciliation.  One of the reasons that I started this blog was to carry out my personal ministry of encouraging others to be reconciled. I urge you dear reader to be reconciled to God through Jesus. Go to the right side bar of this site and check out the little video entitled "Learn How To Be Forgiven In 3 Minutes". This is a wonderful time of the year and today would be a great day to be reconciled to God!