Happy Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe! The days are off my schedule…
but God I’m sure through St. Paul, has a plan to deliver this message TODAY!
The great news that we are all sinners!
Great????
Yes! And we are ALL in need of a savior! And the LAW is not going to cut it!
We are all in need of justification — we know it too — and we are always constantly forever trying to justify ourselves!!!!
St. Paul makes it really clear that by being good and following the Law we cannot MAKE OURSELVES JUST!
29 “since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law for through the law comes consciousness of sin.”
So great! We can see our sinfullness and not one of us has a shot at justification…. on our own!
BUT GOD…
In His great Mercy… from before the world began… before the foundation of the world was established… had our way in mind..to be justified in Him!
In the person of Jesus Christ — the Son of God!
And in Jesus,22 the righteous of God has been manifested apart from the law, though testified to by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS! A great deal! Easy right?
Just have faith and believe!
Simply not easy… for it is truly a gift — and nothing we can do makes this happen!
Righteousness is “acting in accordance with divine and moral law”.
I must make an act of faith and ask for a strong faith that believes in the Son of God… everyday!
There are things in this world that distract and pull me away from a strong faith — I could have it one day and lose it the next… why is that?
Faith is not an emotion… it is a gift of grace… and yet it is a response to God when He moves my heart with the grace of His love…
When things happen in life… and they happen every day… how do I respond? Every day is an opportunity to respond with faith…
and from faith to faith we might be righteous and justified – made just – through and in our faith in Jesus.
Why do I need to be justified? So that I may freely share in the divine nature’s love and be in communion with God the Father through the Son and in the Holy Spirit -
So there is no way we can boast or be puffed up by our faith or when we act in righteousness — for we know that it is the Spirit of Jesus acting in and through us – and in this way making us holy…
and ready to receive Him who is perfect and holy — for we all fall short of the glory of God…
Thank God for Jesus!
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