Bible Verse of the Day Sunday March 3rd, 2024

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.

The salvation we know through Christ Jesus opens the gate to numerous blessings. Sometimes, we are unaware of the abundant blessings that come to us at the heartbeat of salvation. In some cases, it takes some time for the new believer to grasp the magnitude of the blessings from God. However, being saved by grace through faith in Christ unlocks countless blessings for all believers. Christ Jesus has bountifully bestowed many beautiful blessings upon us. One of the many wonderful gifts of God's grace to all His followers is that we are justified, made right with God, and have peace with God through Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior.

Everyone who has accepted the gift of salvation through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus knows peace with God from the first breath we draw as followers of Christ Jesus and continue for our lives here on this earth and throughout eternity. However, God's peace is a state that can vary throughout our lives as his children. It all depends on actively walking in the Spirit and placing our faith and trust in God every heartbeat of our life here on earth.

The peace of God is a state of being that can vary during a believer's lifetime. It depends on our commitment to walking in the Spirit and putting our faith and trust in God every moment of our time on this earth. (Philippians 4:5-7) How excellent that we can have peace with God and the peace of God as we walk through this life filled with strife, discord, and unrest. The wrath that God should have poured out on us because of our sin, He poured out on His only begotten Son, who willingly took the punishment that we deserved. He did this so that we could have peace with God forever.

The only way God will find us right is to place our total faith in the death of Jesus on the Cross to pay the penalty for our sins. We will never stand right before God by our good works and deeds because our labors will never measure up to the perfect holiness of God. Christ's death wipes our slate clean with complete forgiveness and justification, declaring us right before God. At the heartbeat of our acceptance of Jesus as our Lord and Savior, there is a cessation of hostility between God and us. God and humanity stand reconciled forever.