Wednesday, March 11, 2015

My righteousness comes from God

I used to read proverbs and wonder well which am I, the wicked or the righteous.  It seems so clear cut you are either one or the other.  As a Christian I know I am forgiven for being wicked.  In fact I know that I was and at times I am wicked, deceitful, and more.  I also know I am forgiven.  The Bible lets me know that my righteousness is but filthy rags.  Yet I have been redeemed and given the righteousness of Jesus.  I am clothed in His righteousness.  It brings a certain light to many of those passages like in proverbs 11 where it talks about the a persons righteousness making their path straight and delivering them, among other things.  I feel dumb not really thinking about this before, maybe I did and I just forgot.  Either way I know that I am righteous only by Jesus, but now I look at a verse like proverbs 11:5 and see that Jesus who makes me blameless will make straight my way.  In one sense did I know this yes but it makes things brighter to me when I see something like this and put it in perspective.  I know I can be prideful and very wicked but my righteousness, my Jesus, will make my paths straight, will deliver me, he will make me more like Him.  I just thought it would be nice to share what went through my head after reading proverbs today. (bet you can't guess which one)  I know this is probably just for my own reading or re-reading someday but if you stumble on this, pray for me and if you let me know I will pray for you.  God Bless

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like it! Praise God for the gift of righteousness!