| Peace with God |
| “Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1). |
| I recently heard a rather interesting statement in connection with this verse. “Peace with God is being able to look God straight in the eye.” |
| This peace and confidence in the presence of God comes only from having our sins washed away in the blood of Christ and being “justified.” “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him” (Romans 5:9). |
| Justification is simply being seen before God in all the righteousness and perfection of Christ based on the work He accomplished on the cross. “For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). In this way, we have “no more conscience of sins” (Hebrews 10:2). |
| This comes about by confessing that we are sinners, and by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. “Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24). |
| Can you look God straight in the eye? |
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