Romans 5:1–2

November 25, 2009 in Romans with 2 Comments

1 There­fore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us. 2 Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of unde­served priv­i­lege where we now stand, and we con­fi­dently and joy­fully look for­ward to shar­ing God’s glory.

Peace With God

I love the phrase peace with God. It says so much. With­out real­iz­ing it, many peo­ple spend much of their lives striv­ing to find peace with God. Again, we don’t call it that. We think we are look­ing for pur­pose, or ful­fill­ment, or what­ever, but what we are truly look­ing for is peace with God.

Peace with God brings all those other things. When we under­stand our rela­tion­ship with God and live out our pur­pose as a result, we find ful­fill­ment in every­thing we do. It really is that simple.

Paul refers to it as a place of unde­served priv­i­lege. And it’s exactly that. I wont rehash every­thing that I’ve said over the past week other than to remind us again that we did noth­ing to achieve peace with God. We sim­ply accepted the gift of grace offered to us by Jesus Christ.

You know what I’ve dis­cov­ered? Usu­ally, when my heart is trou­bled and I feel unset­tled or frus­trated with where my life is at, it’s usu­ally because I’ve wan­dered a bit from that place of peace with God. I’ve started to do things my way, accord­ing to my wants and desires. When I read­just my pri­or­i­ties and turn back to that con­nec­tion with God, I quickly find the peace I crave once again.

If you’re there: that place of tur­moil or frus­tra­tion, per­haps it’s because you are doing the same thing. If so, then today is a good day to read­just your pri­or­i­ties again. It’s a good time to turn back to the unde­served priv­i­lege you have as a fol­lower of Christ.

My prayer: Lord, thank you for the peace that we can expe­ri­ence with you. It is a peace that remains true even in the midst of the great­est of storms. Thank you for offer­ing me peace with God. For­give me when I stray from that place of peace. And when I do, help me get back on course. Amen.

Until tomor­row.

  • James

    Rob, I can­not believe how your devo­tional just seems to be so timely for me each morn­ing! And so full of truths…that I for­get! How I always try to do things on my own and how I always seem to miss and have to “read­just” my pri­or­i­ties again.

  • http://www.robdale.ca Rob

    Thanks, James. I’m always amazed at how God’s tim­ing is always perfect.