What does it mean to be reconciled to God (Colossians 1:19-20)? Paul explains what this looks like. We were alienated from God. We had no fellowship with him. All our actions and thoughts were self focused. Even our good works had in them a hope of human recognition as we observe when we are not appreciated.
Paul reminds us that our wicked works caused us to think in terms that alienated our minds from God. We were bound in mind and therefore in our actions. When God reconciled us to himself he changed both our minds and our actions.
He has made us immediately cleansed so that we can be in fellowship with him now, and yet is in the process of perfecting us in his ways. In other words, we are increasing in our understanding of God so that we increasingly live more and more worthy of his calling.
(Colossians 1:21-22; Hebrews 10:10-14).
