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Something my professor mentioned last week washed over me like a gentle refreshing summer rain. 

“When God looks at you, and you are justified by faith, and faith alone, he no longer sees a name tag with the word sinner on it, he sees the word saint.”

How many times I have beaten myself up. The voice, the voice of my flesh crying out for my sins to be punished. How many times I’ve listened. If there is one thing I am absolutely aware of, it is that God is absolutely holy, and I am absolutely not. 

But something happened in my life. God reached down into my life, and offered me the gift of faith. When I responded, I began my life as a “child of God.” Jesus paid for my sins, and he paid for them in full. I am held by his loving, gracious hands, and no one can take that away from me. (John 10:28) So why do I continue to sin, and respond to sin with such hopeless and self-loathsome defeat? Why am I still walking around introducing myself to the world as a sinner. 

I am a saint. I am justified by faith alone. God is the author and finisher of my faith. I am a child of God. 

I am not a sinner. I do not work for my salvation. I do not walk this world alone. I am not abandoned in this lonely world. 

This is a peace that I cannot comprehend. To those of you, like me, that need to know God and his love, take heart! You do not have to be enslaved by a nature which was crucified. You were purchased with the precious blood of the lamb – step out in faith and live according the Spirit of Jesus Christ. If you do not know God, and feel lost, don’t lose hope! You can know something so wondeful and powerful, so transforming and real. Come and meet Jesus, repent and be saved from a dark world, of which you are a child of.

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