In our Sunday School Class today we focused on the universal need for reconciliation.  None of us can live a normal lifetime and not feel wrong or angered one or more times during our lives.  Reconciliation is the act of setting aside the hurt, anger, despair, or jealousy created by the event restoring your relationship with the other person to the point where it was prior to the event that fractured the relationship.

In our class today we remembered the words from The Lord’s Prayer, “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.”  We were reminded that the extent to which we forgive others is the extent that we are asking God to forgive us as we pray.

I want God to forgive me of 100% of my sin, so therefore I have no other option than to forgive others of 100% of their sin.  When I do that, we are restored and reconciled!  Put in this context reconciliation seems a lot more important to me now that it prior to attending class today.