Welcome to the In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, February 5th.

Adam and Eve chose to rebel and it shattered everything. But there's still good news. Let's learn how anyone can move from alienation to reconciliation.

Separation, rejection, isolation, alienation, all of these are emotions that none of us like.

In fact, we'd all like to avoid all of them, all of our life if we possibly could, but we cannot.

Because we live in a fallen world, we're going to experience those kind of emotions.

And it's one thing to experience them between us and some of the person.

But when I think about separation, rejection, alienation, isolation, in a person's relationship

to God, how absolutely empty and futile life must be, to feel that somewhere, somehow there must be a God out there,

but you don't feel any relationship with him, no personal relationship.

He's sort of that invisible force out there, and something inside of you wants to relate to God.

Something inside of you desires a relationship with someone

who's greater than you are and someone who'd love you. But somehow, it just never has happened.

The worst kind of alienation is alienation from God. And what I want us to talk about in this

idea from alienation to reconciliation, I want to talk about, first of all, the fact that there

is a tremendous need for everyone to be reconciled to God. So I'm going to just define a

couple of terms here. We talk about alienation. We are talking about being separated from something.

And that alienation may be an unfriendly relationship. It may be a relationship that you're against

someone, but there is a separation. That is a vision. And so when there is a, an alienation between

a person and God, that person can never, never, never be what God intended for them to be. Because God created us to walk in

oneness with him. He created us to be a part of him. And so therefore, when we talk about alienation,

we're talking about separation. When we talk about reconciliation, we're talking about

bringing that which was alienated and separated back into a relationship.

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