"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God ... we have access by faith ... and rejoice in hope of the glory of God ... we glory in tribulations ..." (Romans 5:1-5)

What a precious doctrine is the doctrine of Justification by faith alone in Christ alone, the distinctive Biblical doctrine re-discovered at the time of the Great and Glorious Reformation.  The true people of God wallow in its sublimity while the enemies of God and truth deplore its simplicity.  That a poor guilty sinner, moved by the Spirit of God, repenting of his sin  and renouncing his self efforts, coming in desperation of soul to God for mercy in the name of His dearly beloved and only begotten Son, believing, trusting, and fully relying on His one, sufficient, substitutionary offering for sin at Calvary is saved for all eternity, is the most precious truth in the world!

What wonderful benefits and privileges flow from this justification.

FIRSTLY THERE IS PEACE WITH GOD
"We have peace with God"
Sin has alienated man from God.  The natural mind and the natural man are at war with God.  The Most High God cannot be at peace with an unrepentant uncleansed wilful sinner continuing in a sinning career.

Justification takes away the guilt of sin and so makes it possible for peace between the sinner and God.  Not only is enmity removed but friendship and fellowship with God then exists and the poor sin-sick soul comes to peace in its fullest dimension.

Jesus Christ is the great Peacemaker between God and man.  In fact the apostle Paul speaking of true believers says, "He is our peace" (Ephesians 2:14).  -  Thank God that His people have great peace.

SECONDLY THERE IS ACCESS TO GOD
"We have access by faith"
We who by nature are the wretched sons of want, once justified by faith, have access to God's inexhaustible reservoirs of grace and immeasurable oceans of mercy.

By the path of prayer, with the eye of faith, we enter the unseen realms.  We draw nigh to God's great throne of mercy and of grace.  We lay hold of the horns of the altar and we pour our praises and petitions out before Him.

"No more veil!  God bids me enter
By the new and living way -
Not in trembling hope I venture,
Boldly I His call obey:
There, with Him, my God I meet,
God upon the mercy seat!"

-  Thank God that His people have an abundant access.

THIRDLY THERE IS REJOICING IN THE HOPE OF GLORY
"Rejoice in hope of the glory of God" - That is, the glory which God gives the saints in heaven.

There is great happiness and rejoicing in the heart when a soul feels and knows that he is saved by the grace of God alone, blood-bought and heaven bound.  The Lord Jesus said, "... Rejoice because your names are written in heaven".  Surely a born again, eternally saved, fully justified, child of God who has the sweet witness of the Holy Spirit that by God's grace he is such, has much to rejoice in.  -  Thank God that His redeemed ones have so much to rejoice in.

FOURTHLY THERE IS GLORYING IN TRIBULATION
"We glory in tribulation"
The inerrant infallible Word of God confidently predicts that "all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution".  Seeing that "we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are the called according to His purpose" it should not altogether surprise us too much to learn that in the gracious purposes of God the sanctified tribulations that come to the children of God produce patience, experience, and hope and so benefit and bless them.  -  Thank God that His people can glory in tribulation.