True justifying faith directs the soul, which is aware of its lost condition by the law, to flee for refuge into Christ’s righteousness. This righteousness of Christ is not an act of grace by which He makes your obedience a justifying work acceptable to God. Rather, it’s His personal obedience to the law in suffering for us, which this same law required of us. I can tell you that true faith accepts this righteousness as if it were a blanket that completely covers the soul. In this way, the soul is presented as spotless before God and is accepted and acquitted from condemnation.”
