Jesus, The Measure Of Your
Righteousness
2 Corinthians 5:21
21. For He made Him who
knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.
God wants us to seek His
righteousness and not our
own righteousness.
When we seek our own
righteousness, we will alwaysend up feeling miserable
because we can never be
righteous by our works, no
matter how hard we try.
That is why our loving Father
wants us to remember that
righteousness is not right
behavior but a person —
Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:30),
and that we have “become the
righteousness of God in Him”.
| know of a lady who, before
coming to our church,attempted to establish her
own righteousness by
confessing all her sins to
“clean” herself up. But she
found that the more she
confessed her sins, the more
sins she discovered in
herself. [NO JOKE!]
She became guilt-ridden and
miserable. Feeling stressed
out and weary of confessing
her sins all the time, she
eventually left the church she
was attending.In fact, she never stepped into
another church again for the
next 10 years. One day,
someone gave her my
message tape entitled You
Will Never Lose God's
Everlasting Righteousness
Given To You and she started
listening to it.
Once she learnt that Jesus
was the measure of her
righteousness and
acceptance before God, shebegan to seek God’s
righteousness by seeing
Christ as her righteousness.
[Ditto for me as well!]
Before long, peace and joy
came flooding back into her
life. [WOO-HOO! GO JESUS!]
Today, she worships in our
church. She testified of how
God has supernaturally
healed her of a long-term
medical condition she had.
Even her husband, oncebalding, found hair sprouting
supernaturally!
God was adding all these
things to her according to His
promise — “But seek first the
kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these
things shall be added to you”.
(Matthew 6:33)
Beloved, seeking God's
righteousness means that you
see Jesus as Someone who
knew no sin but became sinfor you, so that He could give
you His righteousness and
make you the righteousness
of God in Him!
As you proclaim daily the
truth that you are the
righteousness of God in
Christ, the more you will see
“all these things” (Matthew
6:33) added to you without
even asking for them!
Thought For The Day:
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IS MY RIGHTEOUSNESS!
AMEN!
| have realized that having
faith in Jesus is more than
enough faith for anything to
manifest A | used to think |
had to have enough faith for
anything. Not now, | have
faith in Jesus who has all the
faith that is needed and HIS
FAITH IS surely ENOUGH.Whoa! That's deep and
profound! What a relief!
You're Righteous Dudes and
Dudettes Brothers and
Sisters!
Thanks only to Jesus!
Your Sister Rachel