The believer in Christ receives a present justification. Faith does not produce this fruit by and by, but now. Since justification is the result of faith, it is given to the soul in the moment when it accepts Him. Are they who stand before the throne of God justified now? So are we, as truly and as clearly justified as they who walk in white and sing melodious praises to celestial harps. The thief on the cross was justified the moment he turned the eye of faith to Jesus. Paul the aged, after years of service, was not more justified than was the thief with no service at all. We are today accepted in the Beloved, today absolved from sin, today acquitted. God supplies us in our journeying to and fro. We are pardoned now; now our sins are put away; now we stand in the sight of God accepted as though we had never been guilty. "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8: 1). There is not a sin in the Book of God, even now, against one of His people. Who can lay anything to their charge? There is neither speck nor spot nor wrinkle nor any such thing remaining on any believer. Let present privilege awaken us to present duty; and now, while life lasts, let us spend and be spent for our sweet Lord Jesus.