Justification is a word which I’ve heard quite a lot recently: we’ve been studying it with Mike Ovey in our Christian Doctrine classes. It’s great and humbling stuff, thinking through salvation and what God has done for us.
With all this in mind, I went to church this morning where we sang “Rock of Ages”, the hymn by Puritan hymnwriter Augustus Toplady. Although I’ve never really paid serious attention to it before, it is a great hymn – and it did make me think of a few things related to justification and salvation which have been floating around my head lately: