Through the fleshly body of Christ, you have been reconciled and presented before God as holy and without blemish. After establishing the centrality of Christ in the on-going work of creation/salvation of the universe, Paul proceeds to present what Christ “does” and how he does it. God’s creative plan for the universe was to culminate in the return of creation back to God (salvation). Having come (proceeded forth) from God, the created universe, led by humanity, was to find its way back to God so that the work of creation could be complete. As planned by God, this return ‘journey’ was to be a natural orientation since creation bears the “traces” of the Creator in itself. However, this design was frustrated and the return rendered almost impossible when humanity got estranged from God because of disobedience. Thus estranged from God, humanity (and indirectly creation as a whole) lost its ability to return to God. It is this estrangement from the Creator that Jesus – through the blood of his cross- endeavored to rectify.
In the words of St. Paul, Jesus’ mission is that of reconciling creation to the Creator. By assuming a creaturely nature, Jesus takes upon himself the weakness of creation in order to bridge the gap that sin puts between creation and the Creator. Through his exemplary life of obedience to the will of the Father, Jesus Christ becomes a model of imitation by his brothers and sisters. By his death on the cross, Jesus shows us what obedience to the Father means as well as how it can be lived out.