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For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Romans 5:10, LSB

We find our salvation through our belief in the crucified Christ and know that in His resurrection we, too, have the promise of life eternal. This is the central part of our faith. This is the promise of our faith; in our belief in this promise, we trust that our sins are forgiven. The gift of the resurrection is that we know that we will be raised at the final judgment and given new life in the eternal kingdom as co-heirs through faith. In Christ, we are a new creation. In the resurrection, we will be raised, and all sin will be removed from our bodies. We will be as God had intended creation to be, in unity with Him. The restored kingdom will be as it was in the Garden when Adam and Eve walked with God and did not fear or flee from Him. We will no longer desire the knowledge of good and evil nor have the desire to be like God because we will know our kinship with the Father through the Son and the Holy Spirit. We will ever have our God before us, and He will be our light for eternity. The new heaven and the new earth will be perfect as we will be perfect. Our reconciliation, however, is not just a future aspiration, but a work being done within us as we live and breathe in our fallen creation, and we can seek to bring others into the light and the glory of our Lord so that we may all know His peace.

Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.