(28) You Can Come to God through Christ (BC 26)

Can a sinner be reconciled with God? To some people that is a strange question. Many people take the attitude toward God that the Jewish community in "Fiddler on the Roof" took toward outsiders: "We don't make trouble with them and so far they don't make trouble with us."
But there is trouble! We are all like the lost son in Jesus' parable who said to his father, "I have sinned against heaven and before you, and I am no longer worthy to be called your son" (Luke 16:18–19). He recognized that his sin had alienated himself from his father. All of us have squandered our Father's inheritance of knowledge, righteousness, and holiness. Our sins have earned us the wages of death (Rom. 6:23). So how can we now come to God and expect that he will accept us?
Scripture's answer is the intercession of Christ. There is a sure way to be reconciled with God. That way requires that we come to terms with the problem, trust God's solution, and act on what we know.