"GOD'S GOOD PLEASURE"

Read Colossians 1:20;
The teaching of Colossians 1:20 that God desires to reconcile all things to himself has been used as an argument that God will ultimately take everybody and everything to heaven. This false
teaching is called universalism, and completely contradicts so many other Scriptures concerning eternal punishment that it simply cannot be true. Mark 9:43-48; Matt. 25:46; Rev. 14: 11; 20:10, 15.

It seems that while it is 'God’s good pleasure' that all things be reconciled, many people simply will not cooperate with God on His terms. God has never forced anyone to accept Him or listen to His Word, although it is true that we cannot escape the consequences of refusing to accept and hear Him.
It is our own eviI works that have alienated us from God and made us enemies in our minds toward God. This alienation was one-sided, and existed only in our minds. John 3:16 teaches that God loved the world.
The world, however, because of its sins hated Him. Any time one person wrongs another, (a child his parent, a pupil his teacher, a worker his employer, a criminal society, a husband his wife, etc.) hostility and separation grow up within the one who has done the wrong. This seems so backward to our thinking; it seems that the one who has been wronged should be offended and walk away. But human nature works the other way. The one doing the wrong alienates self, even if the one who was wronged has forgiven him.
God himself was confronted with this very situation. In order to convince man's alienated heart that God truly loved him, God, the One wronged, made the supreme sacrifice. He gave up his own Son. If the sacrifice of God’s own son cannot bring our hearts and minds to love God, nothing can. (II Cor. 5: 19; Eph. 2:13-17). God has made peace between man and Himself by the blood of Christ's cross. (Eph. 3:16, 14).
We are then called to be like Christ and have the ministry of reconciliation with one another; Sacrificing self for others.