“He justifies those who have faith in Jesus.” Rom 3:26
The Word of God emphasizes: those who have faith in Jesus. This is the condition. Surely, Jesus died for all people and we are obliged to preach to them the Gospel, salvation. Without Him no one can be saved. But today we hear another gospel: to let pagans dwell in darkness and perish in darkness. Certainly, some of them will be saved, but perhaps only those who are not under the sway of pagan religious systems. Or those who have at least not opened up to them. Abraham was a pagan, too, but he had a conscience. Pagans also have a conscience and Christ died for them too. But how can they achieve salvation if no one can be saved without Christ? If they live a righteous life, God will give them a chance to believe in Christ at least in the hour of death. They will either receive Him or reject Him. We will likewise either receive Jesus at the hour of death for the last time or reject Him. That is why the Apostle says that we must be rooted in Him, grounded in Him, so that at the hour of death we may cast away all doubts, all intrusive thoughts, all vanity. It is a hard struggle. You will understand that once you resolve to devote one hour to interior prayer, to spend one hour with Christ. Try to focus on a particular truth at least for one minute, for example during a quarter of an hour. You focus on God for one second… and suddenly, you do not even know how, your thoughts wander. What a hard struggle it is. It is in prayer that you begin to understand how strong the pressure of vanity is that attacks us. What is the storage capacity of a computer compared to that of our brain?! How much vanity is stored in our memory! There is a huge amount of nonsense there running rampant through our mind and pressurizing us day and night. Our memory should store the potential of God’s Word and display God’s Word rather than vanity “on the screen”. We need to put God’s Word into practice and make the most of it. Out of the wealth of our memory we have to be always bringing out a particular truth that is useful to us at the given moment. And this is the meaning of the words: “…those who have faith in Jesus.” – …who have faith!
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