Righteousness - Psalm 31
 1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
      let me never be put to shame;
      deliver me in your righteousness.
Wow. A psalm that actually begins with a mention of righteousness, instead of leading up to in the last verse.
Well, as a Psalm of David, the verse’s statement is certainly true. David has taken refuge in God, and in fact wrote of that refuge in other Psalms. Therefore, he requests, he wants to never be put to shame, and to be delivered in God’s righteousness. It is unclear from the context whether David is saying that his own righteousness is of God, or that God is righteous, and His righteousness makes a good shelter.
The reason I think it might be the former, is because I know that the love that come from me is God’s love flowing through me. My wisdom is really God’s wisdom flowing through me. I’ve never applied that to righteousness… is my righteousness really God’s righteousness flowing through me? Perhaps so.
Remember how we began we this quest on righteousness… Abraham believed God it was accounted to him as righteousness. I see that like Abram had no inherent righteousness of his own (due to sin), but God saw that he believed His words… and so it’s like God took some of His own righteousness, and deposited in Abram’s account. Later, we saw that obedience is our righteousness… not accounted to us as, but is. Maybe that’s like a withdrawal… in which case the righteousness that flows from is is God’s righteousness flowing through us. So, when we are delivered in our belief, delivered in our obedicence, we delivered in righteousness… but our righteousness is in effect God’s righteousness. It would seem then that there is no righteousness in this world, apart from God’s, and it is experienced by this world as it flows through God’s faithful and obedient.