Justified through Christ

January 14

Justified. If you have received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, you have been justified. It hasn’t anything to do with the church you attend or how many times a week you attend there. It hasn’t anything to do with how effectively you endeavor to keep the commandments.

The simple explanation that is often used to make the theological concept of justification understandable to the layman is that when one has received Christ and the cleansing He gives, the whole of the sinner’s existence is washed; his sins, “though scarlet, are white as snow,” Isaiah 1:18.

He may say his life is new, that it is, ‘Just as if I’d' never sinned. What a precious concept! What a matchless gift! It is the reason that man, steeped in sin though he may be can go to his final moment with a peaceful heart. He knows he will meet his Maker, but he will not be met as a convicted criminal before a judge. No! He will be met as a beloved child before his loving Father!

Romans 5:1 tells us clearly and concisely just how this transformation occurs. In simple terms that anyone can understand it conveys to us how we may go from being sin-laden to being sin-free! Here Paul says, “Since we have been justified through faith in Jesus Christ, we have peace with God through our Lord and Savior.” We believe in the work Jesus did on the cross, and the work He did on the cross makes us clean.