Earlier this week I was sitting in the library reading Psalms. It suddenly occurred to me that as I read about the 'righteous' and the 'upright in heart', I could not help but question if I am included in those categories. Do I qualify to be in the 'righteous' group?
Well let's figure this out. I'm definitely not a righteous person. I'm a crazy lunatic sinner. I tend to connect more with the evildoers and the wicked. However, I am cleansed every day by the righteous blood of Jesus. Perhaps I do qualify. I've failed and will continue to fail. I am not denying that. But Jesus did pay my debt of failure in FULL. From the day I was born until the day I die, I have complete coverage for my sins. So it would be absurd to think my failures, great or small, could have any power to reverse what Jesus did on the cross.
I don't think it's that I'm disqualified or qualified to be called righteous. The truth is that there is nothing I can ever do to make myself righteous. I was not born a righteous person. But somehow I was chosen to know Jesus. And Jesus will always qualify. Jesus is always righteous. Jesus is always upright in heart. Through Him I have access to HIS righteousness. It's His and He is mine.
Romans 3:22
"This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe."
2 Corinthians 5:21
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."
Galatians 2:21
"I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
