Journal

Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

• Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
• Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
• List out all that you are grateful for.
• Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

• Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:
  • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
  • A Guide to Self-Reflection
  • A Chart to help articulate feelings

Romans 5 Commentary

Bible Text: Romans 5:1-5 (ESV)

¹ Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. ² Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, ⁴ and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, ⁵ and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Reflection Questions

Romans 5:1-2

• How does being justified by faith lead to having “peace with God” that no merit-based system could provide?
• Reflect on the fact that I have “obtained access by faith into this grace.”

Romans 5:3-5

• What is the progression that turns suffering into hope?  How does this happen?
• Are there circumstances in my life that I can turn into an opportunity for character-building and hope?

Prayer