IT IS GOD THAT JUSTIFIETH.

 

June 20

 

Romans 8:33 

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. 

 
To be justified is to be acquitted, and pronounce righteous.
 
Every believer in Jesus, however ungodly he may have been, or however vile and unworthy he may feel, is justified by Jehovah.
 
The perfect work of Jesus is imputed to him, free grace is glorified in him, and he is passed from death into life.
 
To him there is no condemnation, no one can lay any thing to his charge, he is accepted in the Beloved, Christ lived and died for him, and now he liveth with and shall be glorified through and with Jesus.
 
All trespasses are freely forgiven and eternally forgotten.
 
God has cast all our sins behind His back, and now he pronounces us just.
 
Let us approach God believing that He has justified us; and let us look forward and rejoice that the judge of all the earth will declare us righteous.
 
Who shall lay any thing to our charge? It is God that justifieth.
 
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also make it intercession for us.
 
My soul, look to Jesus, to His perfect work and prevalent intercession, and there see thy salvation and find peace.
 
 

Turn then my soul, unto thy rest;

The merits of thy great High Priest

Speak peace and liberty;

Trust in His efficacious blood;

Nor fear thy banishment from God,

Since Jesus died for thee.

 
James Smith