just

Day 13

Romans 3:26 “to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

If God was unjust, He could never truly justify us. If he winked at our sins, or swept them under the rug, or said “that’s not so bad”, or accepted anything less than His Son’s payment of our sin debt on the Cross (note: “anything less” includes any work that we try to do), He would be unjust.

The only way He could declare us righteous was if someone took our penalty.  The only way we could be justified was if justice was served first.

How amazing that this God is just because he did “not spare his own Son” (Romans 8:32)! How amazing that he did so in order to be our justifier!