Romans 5:1, states that we have peace with God, and that peace comes through having a relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ. When we trust in Him, invite him into our hearts, that’s when we are justified in the eyes of God. Habakkuk 1:13. That God’s eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and he cannot tolerate wrong. We cannot approach God the Father, without having Jesus as our Savior. In John 14:6 Jesus says I am the way, the truth, and life; no man can come to the father except through me. So, if we desire to ever approach our Holy God, to be able to have God hear our prayers, and to be able to spend eternity in heaven with him, we must have Jesus as our Lord and Savior. If we desire to ever approach our Holy God, to be able to have God hear our prayers, and to be able to spend eternity in heaven with him, we must have Jesus as our Lord and Savior. 

          When we have put our faith in Jesus, that is our position with God the Father, from that point forward. 

          What does it mean to be justified? One way of looking at justification is as If one has never sinned. God has removed our sin as far as the east is from the west. Romans 3:22 tells us this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. And then it tells us where each and every one of us stood at one time, Romans 3:23 tells us, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. 

          Paul explains in Romans 5 why we have joy and peace and are right with God. By being justified, through having faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. This is possible only through our Lord Jesus Christ. The key message here is that human beings are born in sin and are slaves to sin by Adam and Eve’s original sin. We are all born under the curse of sin. Jesus Christ came to set us free. John 5:12 tells us “Therefore just as sin entered the world through one man, and that man would be Adam, we are all under the curse of sin. When we are saved, when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we are immediately justified in the eyes of God." To put it simply, justification takes place in an instant when you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.