Hope

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 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. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 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. (Romans 5:1-5 ESV)

We are justified by faith. Not by anything we have done or not done or anything we have tried to stop someone else from doing.

You see the faith by which we are justified is a gift from God and we have access to this through Jesus. Jesus is how we are justifies by grace. See Ephesians 2:8-10, make sure you don’t leave off verse 10. Even though we are justified by faith through grace so we can not boast by our works that does not mean that we do not do works.

And these works will lead us to suffer because these works of love will be things that the world will not like and they will persecute you for doing these works. But maintaining through this suffering will lead to you growing in endurance and this endurance will shape you and build your character in the way God wanted you to be. This character will give you hope. And it is this hope in the grace and the faith of Jesus to give us this gift.

So strive to live in the hope that God has given you. Live in the faith that nothing you have done will get you in to heaven or keep you out if you live in the grace and faith showing His love to everyone.