Saturday, February 06, 2010

The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23:6 KJV
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
I have been studying the names of the Lord for a few weeks now and I was glad to see this one in my devotions for the day. While the Hebrew name, Jehovah Tsidkenu, seems to be popular among some teachers, I prefer the English of the name.

The is no righteousness except it come from the Lord. He not only makes us righteous and gives us righteousness (which would still mean the righteousness has not become a part of our own character) no, it is much better than that, He is our righteousness.

Religion always creates a system whose main focus and drive is to conform its adherents to what they believe is righteous behaviour. Even true Christians can make the mistake of ding that. We urge people to call on the Lord to save them from their sins and then we spend the rest of our time trying to get them to behave how we believe they should. Our followers become confused and frustrated because they just can't measure up to our expectations. This is not at all the plan of God. Our righteousness is not found in how we behave.

Our righteousness is and will always be only Jesus Christ.

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