Within our walks, as we attempt to follow Jesus, we need to be seriously evaluating our hearts–and the issues that affect them. If we make a short list, but the make-up would probably be justification, sanctification, glorification and deliverance.
Of this list, perhaps ‘justification’ takes the biggest hit. Being declared ‘right with God‘ is targeted especially as the most significant . But justification is quite potent, it will stand when all the other issues will stumble. Justification is the starting point, and then it carries us quite a bit further. It stands when everything else crumbles.
We come to this place, it almost seems bizarre and garish as it comes to us. But our simple faith in Jesus Christ has made us righteous. But it seems, if we start to extrapolate it out, we start thinking of realities and probabilities. These often confuse and darken our way, when they not really meant to.
“What if?” “But what might happen?” “Isn’t this a bit bizarre?” “Can’t I really make this ‘Christianity’ work?” And yet at times, we won’t take a solid position, but we operate out of a miasma of thoughts that flit through our hearts.
In the courtroom of heaven, where God sits as a judge, we are given fair hearing. But simply put we aren’t so much as made righteous, but we are declared righteous. The Greek word in the original is centered on this exclusive sense of “declaration.”
You have been declared righteous! It is definitely not a feeling, or a sense of being just or righteous– because this changes 24x a day. It seems I feel that I can never truly accumulate enough to save me. And since I am always moving, I can never really figure it out. And this makes me afraid. I become very disturbed.
We are meant to walk out a sincere justification. The enemy scrambles it before we can grasp it. Satan‘s presence must be nullified in this. There is something radical and decisive here. And it is here he puts his crack troops. This is a definite attempt to destroy your witness.
Broken Believers 