Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

It is this season again. We go thru it every year. Is the purpose of this season what God proposed or what man invented?

God set forth in the Old Testament a series of festivals and tabernacles to be celebrated at certain times. Those traditions are meant for a chosen people who are called by name.

Try as I might to remember anything Jesus told us to celebrate with joy I am hard put to place a time to them, even in the one thing in which He asked to be remembered.

1 Corinthians 11:23-25 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

As often as you do this is not specific and we have turned it into ritual giving it a name, a place and a time to celebrate that man has determined to be appropriate.

We say grace when we eat because Jesus always blessed the breaking of bread together. That was every time, no specific time but intentional within His character.

Luke 19:43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

The enemy can only do that if you do not celebrate every day with joy and in remembrance of Christ who gave your life.

There is no season to love except now.

Today’s word is reconciliation.

Leviticus 8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.

The first word use is the Hebrew word kaphar which means literally to cover over or coat with pitch. Pitch in this case is a tar like substance which over time wears off. Those things hidden are once again seen and in a year’s time it must be done again.

2 Corinthians 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

This is the New Testament first use of reconciliation which comes from the Greek word katallagē which means exchange.

In this exchange Christ gave His life for ours. This exchange is permanent and irreversible.

Hebrews 10:9-12 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Colossians 1:21-22 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

The Greek word for unreproveable is anegklētos which means unaccused. Charges for your sins will not be brought against you in the court of heaven.