Fourth Sunday in Lent; 27 March 2022; Lent 4C (RCL); Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32.
Reconciliation is hard work. All too often, when we think of the forgiveness of sin, we think that God has done this once and for all, and that’s all there is to that. However, Paul tells us that in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Godself, not holding their trespasses against them. Not hold their trespasses against them is just the first step of reconciliation. One has then to move past the consequences of those trespasses.
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