He leads the way and we shall follow into that resurrection into a life which has no end. This one who is both God and man, Jesus Christ, is completely God, so all the fullness of God lives in Him. What a joy it is for us to learn that it was pleasing to God that He should reconcile with us. He made peace with us sinners through this blood Christ shed upon the cross. In fact, the whole world was reconciled to Him through this.
Peace is made with all things.
Though this wonderful thing was gained by Christ's death on the cross, we still wait today for the final realization. Thus we wait, as the Advent theme reminds us, for Christ to come again and bring all things into completeness. Now, our faith in what is invisible, that is our peace and reconciliation and that of the whole world, holds us until Christ comes. Since we have such a wonderful gift, we might ask, what did we do to deserve it. The fact is, we did not deserve it as the next verse explains.