Our Righteousness

Deuteronomy 5-6; Psalms 43; Mark 14

“If we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.”

Deuteronomy 6:25

The law given at Mount Sinai was the minimum required for living according to God’s ways. Obedience to this law constituted Israel’s righteousness. We know Israel failed to keep this law, and yet added many additional laws, creating a heavy requirement no one could fulfill.

As evangelicals, are we doing the same thing today?

Are we trusting in our theological constructs as our righteousness?

Or, are we trusting in Christ alone as our righteousness?

The gift of the Holy Spirit is to empower us to live the life to which Jesus called us. Through dependency on Jesus through the Holy Spirit, we can daily surrender to the Lord and invite him to live his life through us. Right standing with God is possible only through the blood of Christ, but then makes possible. fellowship with God in all of life. This is our greatest privilege.

“Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, for your glory.”