Romans 5:1-2 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Because
all children of God, saved believers, have entered into a status of
justification, we are at peace with God. We did not receive justification
through our efforts; we received it by faith in Christ Jesus. The very
heartbeat that we place our faith and trust in the sacrifice of Christ on the Cross,
God declares us as right in His eyes. There was nothing we did to obtain
justification, and there is nothing we can do to lose it (John 10:28). To be at
peace with God means a lack of hostility between God and ourselves. We are no
longer at war with God because of our sin, and we do not need to search for
ways to appease the wrath of God against us.
There
is a difference between peace of God and peace with God. Peace with God happens
one time, and it is an act of God, not some effort on our part. The peace of
God is inner tranquility or inner peace that we experience when we are in tune
with God (Philippians 4:6).
The
peace of God means to combine what is separated. Jesus brought peace to those
that accepted Him as the savior of the world, the true promised Messiah. Jesus
did this through the shedding of His innocent and perfect blood on the Cross of
Calvary (Colossians 1:20). The people of the world without Christ Jesus have no
peace. The lost of the world will declare peace when there is no peace in their
lives (Jeremiah 6:14; Jerimiah 8:11). We are born at war with God because of
Adam’s sin, so all of us must come to peace with God at some point in our
lives. Those that are not in Christ Jesus, through salvation, will not realize
that they are at war with God. Satan has fooled some well-meaning people into
thinking we may remain neutral with God. However, there are only two states of
life, lost or saved (Romans 8:7-8).
Christians
can come close to God with freedom and confidence because of his amazing grace.
We have complete freedom with God because of what Christ Jesus did on the
Cross. Our honor is direct access into the throne room of God. The grace of God
is unmerited, undesirable, and comes with no conditions (Hebrews 4:6).
We
must accept that the Bible does not state that we are at peace or have peace
with Satan or the world. There will always be battles that we must fight in
this life. However, the struggles of the Christian are no longer against God
because our struggles are on His behalf. Some have mistakenly thought that
battling God might have been a better place to be. However, that is a lie told
by the father of lies, Satan (John 8:44).
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