"Justified By Faith"

"But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith." Galatians 3:11

Living by the Law, making sure we dot all the "I's" and cross all the "T's" and keep all the commandments, is not what makes us right with God. The Book of James says that we can keep the whole law, yet if we break only one law we are guilty of breaking them all. Who can keep them all? The law was too weak to save us, instead it was like as a "schoolmaster" to show us our sin, our lack of ability to save ourselves and the need for a Savior.

We are justified in the sight of God by our faith in Jesus Christ. Faith in what Jesus did on the cross- that it was the avenue of forgiveness, reconciliation, redemption and justification- is all we can do to become right with God. David even put it this way, "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required." (Psalm 40:6)

All your good deeds, all your good works, all your moral behavior, all your acts of kindness, they are not what justifies you before God. They are not what makes you right with Him. No matter how "good" you are by man's standards, there is only one thing that makes you "good enough" by God's-- faith in Jesus Christ.

As clearly as I can say it-- you can't join enough churches, you can't give enough offerings, you can't be baptized enough, you can't feed enough hungry people, you can't do enough humanitarian deeds, you can't fast and pray enough, you can't do enough religious deeds to be justified before God. If that were possible then Jesus died in vain, His death was unnecessary, He suffered without a cause. But it isn't possible. Try if you may, but in the end when you stand before God there is only one thing that He will accept-- was your faith in His Son Jesus as your Savior.

Have a great day. Obeying the Law is not what makes us right with God, having faith in His Son Jesus is.

For Further Reading:
Romans 8:3,4
James 2:10
Hebrews 10:4,5
Galatians 3
Ephesians 2:8,9