The Blessing of Justification – The Presidential Prayer Team

Since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. – Romans 5:1

Many years ago, Look magazine ran a feature where they asked prominent Americans where to find peace in a stressed-out world. Sixteen people were featured in the “Peace of Mind” article. James Michener, the author of many best-selling books, said he found peace by taking his dogs for a walk. Former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater said he found it in his hobbies and in walking at the Grand Canyon. News anchor Walter Cronkite found it in solitude “on the sea in a small boat.” Others had similar answers, most of them subjective.

Former talk show host Rush Limbaugh said, “Jesus holds the answers to all of the everyday problems that you face.” Some 1,500 years ago, Saint Augustine wrote, “You made us for yourself, and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.”

The Westminster Shorter Catechism describes justification as “an act of God’s free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, and accepts us as righteous in his sight only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone.”

Being justified through belief in the atoning work of Christ brings blessings—not the least among them is peace… peace of mind, of heart, of body, but mostly peace with God. There is no other way to find peace than by finding it as God gives it, requiring only your faith. Rest in that knowledge today and pray that members of Congress who claim Christ as their Redeemer would also find their only source of peace in Him.

Today’s Verse: Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Recommended for further reading: Romans 5:1-11

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ²Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

⁶For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. ⁷For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— ⁸but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ⁹Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. ¹⁰For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. ¹¹More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.