God's Secret Plan Revealed

"My people are foolish and do not know me," says the Lord.
They are stupid children who have no understanding.
They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!

...they refused to be corrected.

They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

How can I pardon you?
For even your children have turned from me.

For God in all his fullness
was pleased to live in Christ,
and through him God reconciled everything to himself.
He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth
by means of Christ’s blood on the cross.

This includes you who were once far away from God.

You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions.

Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body.

As a result, he has brought you into his own presence,

and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.

But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it.

Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News.

And this is the secret: Christ lives in you.

Understand God’s mysterious plan, which is Christ himself.

In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him.

Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him.