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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Qualified to be Righteous.

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!"

 

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