The dictionary meaning of “˜Reconcile”™: 1. to re-establish friendship between. 2. To settle or resolve, as a dispute, make compatible or consistent.

Do you have a former friendship that needs to be re-established? Do you know someone who has something against you”¦Jesus said that your

relationships are important and they are important to God.

Is there a difference that you need to initiate with another about an unsettled or unresolved issue?

What did Jesus say?

(NASB) Matthew 5:23-24 “Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

24 leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering.”

It has always been interesting to me that Jesus did not say if you remember that you have something against your brother ““ go and be reconciled. He did say if you remember that your brother has something against you, you go and be reconciled.

True piety before God is to be in right standing with others. God”™s word says you and I are to deal with another who has something against us before we give our gifts to Him.

To initiate reconciliation requires humility. To initiate reconciliation means it needs to be done a.s.a.p.

(NASB) Matthew 5:25-26 “Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

25 Truly I say to you, you will not come out of there until you have paid up the last cent.”

What if”¦you or I go to another and work to be reconciled but that person tells us that there is no grievance, that there is nothing wrong between us.

One of two things may be ascertained:

1- We were mistaken and we had come to a wrong conclusion through a wrong assumption.

OR

2- The other person is not being honest with us (however when we go to another with full intent to make a reconciliation possible and they refuse to acknowledge it ““ we then have done our part and God will deal with that person).

Do you have a friendship that needs to be re-established?

Is there a difference that you need to initiate with another about an unsettled or unresolved issue?

Dealing honestly with anger

will work to make reconciliation a reality.