Justified
2023, Acrylic Painting on 30x40in Canvas
Justified
I have spent much of my life trying to grapple and believe the mystery of Justification. Being made right entirely and whole before God is a daunting thing that seems, on one hand, to good to be true and on the other hand the intense pressure, cooking my zealous attempts at my own righteousness. But what if what He says is true? Maybe in an instant without any of my own doing, I was made right before God forever and without imperfection.
“If anyone is in Christ He is a new Creation. The old has gone and the new has come.” 2 Corinthians 5:17
I was born on 5/17 and this verse caught my attention one day. Maybe the strength and breakthrough to be made right with God was entirely His own work. One that He instigated and designed for me. Maybe I truly have been made into a new creation. In the same way, with the same mystery perhaps He truly has declared me Justified. Maybe this truly is my reality.