Justification and Peace

Romans 5:1 “Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ”, Col. 1:20 “And having made (making) peace through the blood of His cross…”, Jhn. 14:27 “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither be afraid.”

Our peace rests on the only foundation where God is resting. Our peace is based upon the glorious truth that God is not only satisfied as to the entire question of our sins, but He is glorified about it. We will never experience the peace that is ours by looking at anything in or about ourselves. We will not experience the peace of God that is ours by self-evaluation, as someone has said, "that is a very dismal and miserable work."

Peace for you and I is that all is gone from God's eye. God only knows you and I in the sight of His Son. Peace is I am in Christ before God. Everything is gone from God's sight of you and I because of the Cross of Christ. And God forbid that I should glory in any other thought or thing other than His Cross which crucified what the world thinks about me or me thinking about the old self (Gal. 6:14).

You and I have peace with God in the fact that we both agree with Him about the peace of Christ's Cross because we are forgiven. Look off and away from your own thoughts and feelings, your experiences, whether they are good or bad. Look away from self completely and rest in Christ and His finished work about you (Heb. 12:2).

God declared the guilt in us and completely removed it, being completely and gloriously satisfied by what Christ accomplished on the Cross.

Peace is never to be found in self or in anything that we can do, think, feel, experience, or go through. It is wholly and completely and exclusively in Christ. That is where Christ Himself has once and without change eternally placed us.

There is no fear in God's love for us in Christ. God's sight of us is Christ and my sight of myself before God can only be true as I see myself in Christ. What joy unspeakable, what a peace that passes understanding, and what a love that we will never come to the end of experiencing.

We have so much to be thankful to God for in every season of our lives.