FROM ENMITY TO AMITY

There are three important terms that relate to man's spiritual condition before God ... 

1. Enmity - a deep-seated feeling of hostility, antagonism, animosity, or ill will between two parties.

2. Amity - a peaceful, cooperative, and supportive relationship between two parties. 

3. Reconciliation - the condition in which a change from enmity to amity has occured. 

Everyone comes into this world in a state of 'enmity' with God because of the sin nature inherited from Adam's fall ... 

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, so death spread to all mankind because all sinned. Romans 5:12

As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. Romans 3:10-11 

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23 

But your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear. Isaiah 59:2

With this understanding, how can 'amity' between Holy God and sinful man ever take place? The disciples asked Jesus this very question ... Who then can be saved? And He said, 'The things which are impossible with men are possible with God'. (Luke 18:26-27)

The only way 'reconciliation' could exist is if God took the initiative. And He did ... For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)

Calvary's cross made the 'enmity to amity' conversion possible ... For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life. (Romans 5:10) 

Through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ, man's alienation from God can end forever ...

For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. Colossians 1:19-20

You are not asked to meet Him halfway. That would mean that there is something you must do in your own strength. It has never been Christ 'plus' something; it is Christ ... 'period'. Jesus came all the way to reconcile you to God. 

If you've yet to surrender to His Lordship, time is short ... going 'from enmity to amity' is my heart's desire for you.