We were reconciled by Jesus in the body of His flesh through death. The process was complete and resolved everything we needed to be presented holy, and blameless, and above reproach before the Father. Today, as new creatures, we are a source of joy to the Lord (2 Corinthians 5:17). Once we were guided by the spirit of sin; now the Holy Spirit directs us in the ways laid out in Scripture. To God be the glory!

For the work to be good, the Son reduced Himself to a seed like the one that made us in the likeness and image of God. Christ became human, a citizen of Earth like us, but without sin (Hebrews 4:15). Jesus went through embryonic development in His mother's womb, who, at the right time, went into labor to give birth to the Savior (Luke 2:1-7). All of this was necessary to save us.

At birth, Jesus went through everything that we also experience. Even though He was God and Lord, He humbled Himself to come into this world to save us (Philippians 2:5-8). Even those who knew the Word did not realize that the boy born in Bethlehem of Judea grew up in Nazareth and was the promised Messiah, the Son of the Almighty. He was like any human being, without any beauty, as described in the Bible.

Everything in the Scriptures about Christ was confirmed by those who saw Him personally. He is the King who came to free us from the empire of darkness. Thus declared the prophet Isaiah: For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. (Isaiah 53.2). No one needs anything special to do the work, just believe in Jesus!

We know that Christ's work was perfect. He fulfilled everything that was foretold about His life. By believing that Jesus fulfilled the Scriptures and that His sacrifice for us was complete, we are saved from eternal perdition and presented holy before the Father. To be holy is to be separated from the filth of the world, and this is achieved by faith, which comes when we hear the Word (Romans 10:17).

We will be presented blameless before the Most High, that is, without anything that makes us deserving of any rebuke. Those who are in Christ are easily freed from any accusation. The Bible says that we are the letters of Christ, written by the Spirit of the living God (2 Corinthians 3:3), so that the world may know Him and witness His transforming power. Nothing will prevent us from being blessed, except giving way to fear (Ephesians 1:3).

Those who are called by the Most High and justified by Christ become blameless of any incrimination brought by the evil one to try to condemn them. The Lord Jesus will present His children as holy, blameless, and irreproachable. How beautiful that day will be!

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares