A quote

By Ray Ortlund Jr. in The Gospel Coalition:

The doctrine of justification by faith alone is the answer to the greatest personal question ever asked by a human soul, the question: How should I be right with God? And how do I stand in God's sight? With what favour does he look upon me? 

There are those I admit that never raise that question; There are those who are concerned with their standing before men, but never with the question of their standing before God; There are those who are interested in what people say, but not in the question of what God says. Such men however are not those who move the world- They are apt to go with the current, they are apt to do as others do, they are not the heroes that are to change the destinies of the race.

The beginning of true nobility comes when a man ceases to be interested in the judgement of men and becomes interested in the judgement of God.

It is so freeing to stop needing human approval; It is so freeing to get up and follow Christ, though inevitably some will find fault (like the pharisees). It is so freeing not to be bound by how things look in the eyes of men and to be deeply bound by Jesus, in fact ultimately it doesn't even matter how we appear in our own eyes. 

We give ourselves to Christ for his Judgement; If he is our only Justification then He is the only reason we need to live.The doctrine of justification creates a culture of manly, noble thinking for ourselves as servants of Christ, only men like that can change the course of history.