Reconciliation of the mind (Colossians 1:21)

"You who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled.." (Colossians 1:21)

Enmity in the mind against God is not something that has come upon us because of circumstance, culture or creed.  The enmity of the mind is the constant and prevailing condition of all men without the miracle of reconciliation in Christ.  He has brought us back into a right relationship with God through the suffering of the cross. Nothing remains that has not been made right in relationship with our Father through Jesus.

"It pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven having made peace through the blood of His cross." (Colossians 1:19-20)

In that He has reconciled all things, He has absolutely brought reconciliation to our mind.  The mind through the power of the Gospel can now please God in it's intent, intellect and imagination.  Never forget that God is aware and deeply concerned with what is going on in our minds.  In God's wrath through the flood we see a vivid picture of how much God is concerned with our mind;

"The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth and was grieved in His heart.  So the LORD said "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth." (Genesis 6:5-7)

Seeing then God's concern with the thoughts of man, it is imperative to us that we have apprehended the mind.  Our thought life needs to reflect the reality of the reconciliation we have experienced in Christ.  If we have experienced salvation and are in a right relationship with Him, our thoughts can now be directed towards heaven;

"If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.  Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.  For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.  when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory."  (Colossians 3:1-3)

~Selah