*Updated 7.18.10* I love looking back and seeing how God began revealing Himself fresh and anew to me as I sought Him with my whole heart. Praise God He continues to sanctify, teach, guide, and empower us Believers! I have gone back through this post and added a few clarifying statements and verses. Originally title “Jesus: Wrath Diverter” posted on 4.09.09.

You know how you can read the same verse or passage in the Bible over and over, and then one day you read it and it’s revelation? I was checking out this passage today and God opened my eyes to see how important my faith is and just how much Jesus really has done for me.

Romans 5:1-2 “1Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

We know that we are “saved by grace through faith” and that we are justified at salvation. This verse goes deeper than that. Since or Because we have been justified by our faith, which is itself a gift from God (Eph 2:8-9)… We have peace with God through Jesus Christ our Lord. My Justification put God at peace *with me*. See I didn’t have anything against God, I wasn’t angry at God or hate Him so there really wasn’t any reason for me to be at peace with God. But by my actions and because of the sin in my life, the Bible says that I was working against God and I was His enemy and a target for His righteous wrath (Rom 3:10-18)!

Because I have been justified (as if I had never sinned) through my faith in Christ, the wrath of God toward me was diverted to Jesus on the cross! It was more than diverted away from me to Christ… He took or absorbed God’s righteous wrath on my behalf (Is 53: 4-5; Is 53:10; 2 Cor 5:21)! So Jesus put God at peace with me!! Verse 2 goes on to tell us that because of our faith in Jesus, through Him we have access to the grace that gives us the power to stand (against the devil and our flesh), so can we rejoice in the hope that one day we will be with Him in the glory of God forever!

This book “Romans” blows my mind every time I read it, so I’m so thankful God reveals cool things like this to us every now and then!