"IT IS CHRIST THAT DIED ... THAT IS RISEN AGAIN ... FOR OUR JUSTIFICATION." Only God can justify: this He did when He raised His Son from the dead. To be justified is to be acquitted and pronounced 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 unto life. To him there is no condemnation; no one can lay anything to his charge; he is accepted in the Beloved; Christ lived and died for him, and now he lives and shall be glorified through and with Jesus. All his 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 anything to our charge? It is God that justifies. Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. My soul, look to Jesus, to His perfect work and present intercession, and there see thy salvation and find peace.

For Meditation:
Turn then, my soul, unto thy rest,
Lean only on thy great High Priest;
He gives thee liberty:
Trust only in His precious blood;
Now fear no more the wrath of God,
Since Jesus died for thee.