He Can Justify You

God, the infinitely just Sovereign, knows that there is not a just man upon earth that does good and never sins. Therefore, in the infinite sovereignty of His divine nature and in the splendor of His ineffable love, He undertakes the task of justifying the ungodly.

God has devised ways and means of making the ungodly man to stand justly accepted before Him: He has set up a system by which with perfect justice He can treat the guilty as if he had been all his life free from offence, yea, can treat him as if he were wholly free from sin. He justifies the ungodly.
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. It is a very surprising thing—a thing to be marveled at most of all by those who enjoy it. I know that it is to me even to this day the greatest wonder that I ever heard of, that God should ever justify me.

I feel myself to be a lump of unworthiness, a mass of corruption, and a heap of sin, apart from His almighty love. I know by a full assurance that I am justified by faith which is in Christ Jesus, and treated as if I had been perfectly just, and made an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ; and yet by nature I must take my place among the most sinful.

I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving. I am loved with as much love as if I had always been godly, whereas aforetime I was ungodly. Who can help being astonished at this? Gratitude for such favor stands dressed in robes of wonder.
Now, while this is very surprising, I want you to notice how available it makes the gospel to you. If God justifies the ungodly, then, dear friend, He can justify you. Do not attempt to make yourself something other than you really are. Come as you are to Him who justifies the ungodly.

~ Charles Spurgeon