Our Righteousness is God’s Protection
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
After studying righteousness for a solid month now, it is pretty clear that for a person, righteousness only comes from believing God and obeying Him. In other words our righteousness is from God. Furthermore, our righteousness is not something that gives us right to boast, because it is not description of us as people. We consider it so when we discuss “the righteous men of the bible”, but really it is not. If righteousness is credited to us for belief, if righteoussness is the mere obedience of our action, independent of our ability or success in that action, then clearly our righteoussness is not a true description of us, but of how God has chosen to willingly see us. But more …