We’re all very good at justifying ourselves. If we act in anger, we blame it on a headache or something that happened earlier in the day. We can easily come up with some way to shift the blame from ourselves to something or even someone else. Sometimes we are successful in convincing others that we are right. But the question is what does God think of that? How can we convince him? Tune in this week to The Bible Study Hour as Dr. James Boice reminds us that God is the only Justifier.
In the running of the Christian life, we can err by looking only at the past; this is sin, for it is a lack of faith in God’s future blessing. But we can also err by looking only at so distant a future that we miss the more immediate blessings that God has in store for us now. If we are really to engage in that great struggle for God’s best, we must also prepare for vigorous spiritual conflict. Our striving is not only against ourselves or circumstances but against the spiritual forces of this world that would seek to hinder us.