Making Things Right
Monday March 4, 2019
Making amends is a responsibility we must take seriously if we want to protect our sobriety. It’s not simply offering an apology for bad behaviour and restitution wherever possible. Making amends is about doing all we can to set things right and to make it as easy as possible for healing to come to the ones we have injured.
Don’t be concerned for your own good but for the good of others. I, too, try to please everyone in everything I do. I don’t just do what is best for me; I do what is best for others so that many may be saved. (1 Corinthians 10:24, 33 NLT)
Taking the first step in making amends with others would be impossible if God had not first demonstrated the way for us. Over and over again we failed to keep God’s commandments and yet while we were still in rebellion God sent His Son Jesus into the world to atone for our sin, so we could be reconciled to Him. Jesus completed the work necessary for us to know peace with God, and now God calls us to extend that peace to others. As we begin the work of restoring our troubled relationships, we can reflect on God’s way of reconciliation.
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:19 NLT)
To make amends requires that whatever we do, we must do it for the good of the person we have harmed. This is not intended to be a one-time event. It is meant to be our pattern for living each day. Our goal is not just to feel better about ourselves but to lift others up and lighten their load.
Prayer: Loving God, Thank you for forgiving me for all the times I’ve failed. Help me to forgive others and do what is necessary to take responsibility and make amends for my own bad behaviour. Help me to live today in ways that lift others up and lighten their load. Amen
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