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A prayer for today by Alistair Begg,

read by Leah Martin.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights

with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

James 117.

The believer in Christ receives a present justification.

Faith does not produce this fruit later on but now. So far as justification is the

result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it closes with Christ

and accepts him as it's all in all.

Are those who stand before the throne of God justified now?

So are we as certainly and as clearly justified as those who have entered into the portals of heaven.

The thief upon the cross was justified the moment he turned the eye of faith to Jesus.

And Paul, at the end of his life, after years of service, was not

more justified than the thief who had no service at all. We are today accepted in the beloved, today absolved from sin, today acquitted

at the bar of God's judgment.

What a soul-stering thought.

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