Colossians 1:22 - The way we ARE.

"...but now He reconciled [you] in the body of His flesh through the death to present you holy and spotless and blameless before Him." 

-The way we ARE.  Whether Paul is thinking strictly of a present condition or a future time when we stand face-to-face before the King of the universe, we are now and forever finally in good standing with our Maker.  Only those things which in fact are holy without spot or blemish are able to stand in His presence.

-That which made this possible, this complete change of spiritual condition and status, was the physical death of Jesus, our Savior.  A perfect, spotless, unblemished sacrificial passover Lamb (Exodus 12.5, 1Peter 1.19).  His death, the precious blood He shed on the cross, saved us and rescued us from the place of being on hostile terms with God.  There is a catch, however...