By Faith
By Faith
By faith in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior we have peace with God.
(Romans 5.1).
This is the unconditional peace of God that extends beyond circumstances.
By faith we are declared righteous by God. We are pronounced, ” Not guilty!”
By faith the invisible reality of eternity enters our present time. The potent
reality of the divine enters our current concrete condition. This is because
by faith we become the “new man” under the death, burial and resurrection of
Jesus Christ as witnessed in our baptism we belong to God Who gives life to the
dead and calls the things that are not as though they were. We are born from above,
born of the Spirit, into a new and living hope that never perishes, we enter through the
narrow gate, through Jesus the gate of life, the door of the sheepfold. He is the Door
for the sheep:
“I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved. He will come in and go out
and find pasture.”
John 10.9).
By faith we are saved and this necessary conviction, this prerequisite trust is given to us by God
as an absolute gift.
The new reality, the TRUTH that we are now new men is evident at the gate beyond which it is
humanly impossible to proceed. It is only made possible to us because of the Cross of Christ
Jesus and His Resurrection. We trust Him Who is the Resurrection and the Life. No one
can come to the Father except through Jesus Christ. ” I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me”. ( John 14.6).
And no one can come to Jesus unless the Father draws him:
” No one is able to come to Me unless the Father Who sent Me attracts and draws him and
gives him the desire to come to Me, and I will raise him up from the dead at the last day.”
(John 6.44).
Because of the Father drawing us and the faith he bestowed on us to trust in Christ Jesus
our Lord and Savior we are saved and have right standing with Him. We have peace with God
and are counted righteous because in Christ His righteousness is imputed to us due to faith
which is His gift also. Therefore in our weakness we are strong, in our poverty we are rich,
in our deadness we are alive and in our smallness we are great. The last are first, the least
are best, the lost are found, the sad are glad, the blind see, the lame jump for joy and the
slaves are set free. Because He takes up your cause. He takes your side. He gives you
His victory. He always causes us to triumph. We are more than conquerors through Him
Who loves us. He Who has begun a good work in you shall also perfect it. He has placed us
in the center of His will. He has promised us we shall see His salvation in the Land of the Living.
He promised us we will be in His Kingdom.