Today I want to share from Jerry Savelle's daily devotional!
YOU ARE JUSTIFIED
[All] are justified and made upright and in right standing
with God, freely and gratuitously by His grace (His unmerited favor and mercy),
through the redemption which is [provided] in Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:24 AMP)
I want to focus on two particular words found in the
scripture verse above: justified and redemption.
The word justified is not one we commonly use in
everyday English, but the essence of its simplest biblical definition is “just
as if I’d never sinned.” In other words, because of the redemptive work Jesus
did at the cross, God now looks at you just as if you’d never sinned.
The word redemption means “to buy back.” Just as
an individual who was kidnapped is bought back from their captor with ransom
money, so Jesus bought you back from the hands of the devil with His shed
blood.
The Bible says, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall
not impute sin” (Romans 4:8 NKJV) and God is “the justifier of the one who
has faith in Jesus” (Romans 3:26 NKJV). Never again will your sins be
counted against you.
Receiving this justification and redemption does not depend
on your performance; it depends on your faith in Jesus and the fact that you
are “in Him.” And the good news is, because you are in Him, you are justified!
Confession: Thank You, Father, for treating me just as
if I’d never sinned. I cast down all thoughts of condemnation, and I meditate
instead on the free gift of redemption that is mine because I am in Christ
Jesus.
Amen! Keep reminding yourself that you ARE who GOD says that you are! This from Hillsong should help remind you of that! "Who You Say I Am":
Shalom in Him!
