Justified—the major adjustment

Walking in a new world; the old world is past. The old gone, as if it had never been. Gone, for the child of God, almost as if it doesn’t exist. Walking like Jesus walked, His freedom to meditate on faith and righteousness, His conversation in heaven.

Walking in faith. Walking in a world of faith. Walking in faith in God. Walking with God. A God so big that we can think of nothing else. Walking in a worship wonderland, lost in His love.

Forgiven. The struggle with sin and shame is over. The devil is far removed. His voice to discourage and accuse is silenced. His power to tempt revoked. If he is mad about this, his fulminations are known only by his minions, because God has given the soul a deaf ear to the adversary and his world. The soul he no longer possesses, to steal and kill and destroy it at will; by combined human/divine power, God has returned to His rightful possession and rules it in love and righteousness.

Does this sound like justification? Or rather glorification? It does describe glorification, yes. But sanctification and glorification are both squarely set upon justification—that big major adjusting God accomplishes in our thinking through faith in His gracious love.

Justification is the big foundation upon which the rest of the temple is built. Glorification is the end result of our redemption, and sanctification is the in-between phase. They are both simply justification, a reconciling again to God, a fuller and fuller acceptance of the repentant sinner by Him, every step of the way.

As the wisest said, “The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” (Prov. 4:18).

“For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.” (Rom. 5:10).