True Peace With God

Therefore, since we have been justiied by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:1)

Father, Thank you for justifying me by faith, and only faith. You don’t require me to clean up my life before coming to Christ.
You don’t require me to attain a certain level of righteousness before coming to Christ. All you require is that I throw aside any foolish hope in my own merits, and fully embrace the free justiication available to me through Jesus Christ.

I trust only in Christ, hope only in Christ, and stand only on Christ, for he only is my justiication. I will trust in nothing else, hope in nothing else, stand on nothing else. All other ground is sinking sand. All other foundations will crumble under the weight of your perfect requirements. Christ alone is my only hope.

I will not dishonor the work of Christ by attempting to smuggle my own good works into his inished work.

Thank you that I, once a rebel, once a traitor, once an enemy, now have objective peace with you. We are no longer at war, we are at peace.

There is beautiful, divine peace between you and me. You are now for me, with me, sustaining me, blessing me, upholding me, treating me as your precious child.
Even when I don’t feel peace, I still have true peace with you.
Even when the circumstances of my life seem out of control, I still have objective peace with you. I am still your child. You are still 100% for me.
This peace never changes because it has been fully paid for by your son.

Today, help me live in the good of my free justiication. Free me from my sinful tendency to rely on my own merits. Forgive me for trying to add my own good works to the perfect, completed work of Jesus Christ.

Forgive me for dishonoring the inished work of Christ by relying on my own works righteousness.

Strip away any hope I would have in my good deeds. Help me to see that my own good deeds are nothing more than a hollow foundation that will quickly dissolve.

Free me from my obsession with my faulty self-righteousness.

Help me to stand only on Christ, the solid rock. Help me live in the peace that is mine through Jesus Christ.

Let me experience the peace that is already mine through Jesus Christ.