There is, perhaps, no greater realization to which I have come in my “journey of faith” in recent years than the fact the justification that I enjoy by faith in Christ is an objective fact of the gospel. That might seem like a rudimentary thing to articulate, but I assure you, that isn’t always the prevailing notion you’re made to come away with when exiting the sanctuary. Sometimes it feels as though God’s “feelings” about waver by the hour. And to the degree that you live sanctified is the degree to which God loves you.