So we see that, for Paul, justification was not only a past event but also a present reality. Every day Paul looked outside of himself, to Christ and his finished work, and saw himself righteous in the sight of God because he was in Christ. We all need to learn to live like Paul. Every day we too must look outside ourselves to Christ and see ourselves justified before God because of our representative union with Christ. Most of us have “good days”—when life pretty much goes along as we desire and