Ezekiel 14.6 commands repent! Abandon your idols and turn away from your abominable practices.

This is what turning to the Lord Jesus as Savior really looks like: repentance, abandonment, stopping.

Unfortunately when most of the Church invites people to reconcile their lives with God it is an invitation to believe in Him and for Him to enter their lives in order to make them better.

We market God as the Fixer of our problems, the Healer of our wounds, and the Provider of our needs. God is indeed all of these things but He does not exist for us, we exist for Him. The devil believes but he remains self-centered and thus unreconciled to God.

If we would be truly reconciled to God we must approach Jesus first in an attitude of repentance. This means confessing to God how wrong we have been to disobey Him and commit to Him forevermore, with His help, to obey His commands.

Second, it means abandoning everything we lived for before we asked Jesus to Lord over our lives. The primary idol all of us have is self. We demand from God and the world our comfort, our way and our preference. This idol must be put to death in order to follow Jesus that He might be obeyed by placing His will and His ways above all others including our own.

Finally, we are to stop doing that which displeases God. Jesus was punished for all of our disobedience but those who are truly reconciled to God seek to cease from those activities for which Jesus was crucified.

We cannot choose God and continue to choose our sinful lifestyle.

Being reconciled to God is choosing to die to self and to follow Jesus by obeying His commands.