So I’m Justified…Now What?!? PART 2 : Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something!

Yesterday I wrote about how it is easy to come to a deep understanding of our right standing before God because of Jesus, but not know what to do with it. A year or so ago, I was taking the Sonship discipleship course, and my mentor in the course, Richard, sensed that I was having confusion over this issue.

Richard encouraged me to let my right standing before a holy God lead me into intimacy with the Father, His Son, Jesus, and His very Spirit.

Many of us have heard this before, and so it seems familiar, but we must not judge its familiarity by our cognitive understanding, but by how familiar we are relationally to our Father. If I’m honest, at times, He might as well be an alien to me. But this is antithesis to one of the purposes of justification. Hebrews 4:16 reads,

“Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

In this verse, we can see the legality of the Gospel: have confidence because of Jesus’ person and His finished work…God’s justice is now satisfied and there is grace.

But this verse also shows us how the relational aspects of the Gospel springboard based on the legality of the Gospel: draw near….receive…find grace to help. All these imply relational interaction with Abba. The good news is that we are free to relate to the Father as ourselves because we are hidden in Christ and His work!

So today, as you are reminded of your justification, Don’t Just Stand There, Do Something. In other words, don’t mistake staring at your justification as intimacy with Christ. Let Jesus’ finished work carry you into the Father’s presence, knowing that the Father’s sense of justice is satisfied in His Son, and you are justified in His eyes.

In the next post, we’ll look at when we say Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There! in regards to our right standing before God.