Romans 5:2 - In hope of the glory of God

5:2

We have gained access into the favour of God by faith. All religions seek in some way to achieve some sort of favoured or desirable position, the means of achieving this are always by works of one sort or another. With the gospel obtained access into this grace by faith. Our privileged position is entirely unmerited, we have not achieved it based on merit. Instead it is by grace, undeserved favour, and we have entered this state by faith.  We now stand in this position of grace. When we look at our lives and our circumstances, and our future, we need to realise that we stand in the grace of God. Our natural approach is to assess our lives and situations by our abilities or our goodness. What can we manage to do? This is a mistake. We need to assess our lives based on the undeserved favour of God, and His goodness towards us. “We rejoice in the hope of the glory of God”. The gospel affects our present and our future. Without the gospel the only future we have is death. With the gospel our future is the glory of God, the glory that God intends for us. This is no worldly glory which at best lasts only a moment, but the glory of Christ (Rom 8:17). Glory includes concepts of splendour and significance.