God is the One who is just
and the one who justifies; period, end of sentence. So why do we work so hard
for what is none of our business? I don’t mean sin; we don’t have to work at
disobedience or doubt or self-centeredness or disregard for the needs of others
or neglect of the planet or any of the ways we are guilty of being less than
what God intended humans created in the image of God to be. No. Sin is all
about us which is why the just One who intends to justify the creation gone its
own way enters the fray to contend with the inevitable consequence of our
rebellion, namely, death. Faith does not activate or complete what God has
already done in entering the human story. Faith means we enter God’s story in
the Christ and stop working for what is already ours because we no longer doubt
what is beyond comprehension. We are already justified, made right with God,
because God won’t have it any other way, which means we are free to be what it
means to be fully human.
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