My Justifier

Lately, I've had a couple areas where I struggle raise their ugly heads and try to bring me down.

It's kind of my own fault because I had gotten lazy.

There's a reason why the Lord tells us to pray and be vigilant. When you are not looking, the enemy loves to slip something over on you.

You know why? Because he loves to get our eyes off Jesus and on ourselves. He will use any means possible, whether it be through a disaster, or through the hand of an enemy or a loved one. But I personally think his number one favorite way to get our focus on ourselves instead of Christ is to arrange a trap for us to walk into and have no one to blame but ourselves.

Then he has the fun of watching us berate ourselves!

Oh yeah, it can turn into a pity party of epic proportions, and all the while it is going on, our eyes are off Christ.

So, the last couple days, in my spare time, I've been giving myself a good talking-to, you know the kind where you tell yourself every thing you've ever done wrong and then end with a big sigh, "I guess I will never learn."

Yeah, that kind of talk.

But today, I saw something beautiful in my study of scripture. 

"Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus." Romans 3:25-26 English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus is my justifier. I don't deserve a justifier but I get to be justified because I have faith in Jesus. 

And what does the word justified mean anyway? It means being in right-standing with God. Another way to put it - as a believer, I stand just as if I'd never sinned.

There's a lot of wonderful names we have for Jesus, King of Kings, Prince of Peace, Counselor, Son of God, the Rose of Sharon, Elder Brother ... I could go on and on.

But maybe my favorite one is My Justifier.

Have you been justified by having faith in Christ and believe He is who He said He is?

It is my prayer that you have!

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