Usama Bin Laden Reconciled to the United States

Yesterday I attended a service at Oxford Bible Fellowship here in Oxford, OH.  We had a guest speaker yesterday on account of the senior pastor having gone back home to Indiana for the weekend and the University being on spring break.

Overall the guest speaker was alright.  One thing he said definitely made me think.  He came up with an interesting analogy that I wanted to share with all of you.  He said (paraphrased)...

Imagine that, after the events of 9/11, and the War on Terror that followed that the U.S. found Usama Bin Laden.  After being captured he met with President Barack Obama and reconciled himself with the President and was forgiven of all his crimes.  After being reconciled with Obama, he is appointed Ambassador to Afghanistan to try and reconcile other known terrorists with the United States.

Now, depending on your point of view, this may seem ridiculous to some of you.  If you are like me, you are thinking, "Yeah Right, UBL should die a horrible and painful long and drawn out death for what he did to this country, its citizens and others around the world!!"  I mean come on!!  He killed over 2000 U.S. citizens on 9/11 and his people have been responsible for thousands of citizen and military deaths around the world since!!

After the speaker gave us that scenario he then applied it to God and us as Christians.  At one point we were UBL in that story.  We were the ones sinning uncontrollably and doing anything we could to damage God's purpose on this earth (whether that's how we viewed our sin or not).  Then, God captured our hearts, forgave us, reconciling us to Him and then appointed us as his ambassador to the world, to our country, and our communities.  Even though we deserve to "die a horrible and painful, long and drawn out death," God saved us and wants to use us as His ambassador to His people.  We were just as bad as Usama Bin Laden was to America until we were saved and reconciled to God.  

Anyway, that just made me think for a minute and I thought I would pass it along.  

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