Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Of this passage, William Bridge wrote: There is "A fundamental peace which does naturally arise and flow from their justification. And there is an additional peace, which arises from the sense of their justification."
That we are justified and hence at peace with God is a fact. From this fact we may draw comfort and peace. But it is our sense or experience of your justification that we draw a second if not special peace.
But sense being subject to the ups and downs of our living this peace may seem all to transitory and fleeting. We may struggle to be at peace while our senses are pulled and twisted by the world, our flesh and the devil.
Perhaps we rely too much on sense and not enough on the truth found in the Word. There is always something to twist or other wise hinder our senses. It is in our senses that the flesh finds its best target as when we confuse our felt needs with our real needs and our felt condition with our true condition.
We d ourselves no good when we seek to live on some "sense" of our justification. The evidence that we do not deserve it and are not worthy of it is just too overwhelming to our senses. But we will still seek to attain that "feeling" of justification.
Consider this; the only place I can see where we can truly gain a sense of our justification is in our sense of our sinfulness. Apart from that justification has no meaning and certainly no sense. It is the same old story. It is only at the cross looking upon the price paid that we can have the solid and appropriate sense of justification. For we are justified from our sins and there only.
If I desire to have a sense of the peace wrought by my justification I must see my sin and it's cost and accept that He has redeemed me from it. There is no other place from which my justification makes sense or gives sense than at the foot of the cross.
There in lies the lesson
M
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