Righteous Before God!

Genesis 7:1 Then the Lord said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all your household; for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time."

Righteousness is a subject that often comes up in these morning devotionals. It is a rich word full of significance and meaning, one which every believer should become well aquainted with.

Righteous means to declare someone innocent, to be vindicated from wrongs. It is a word that is used to describe God's standard of ethics and morality. Ps. 145:17 tells us that, "The Lord is righteous is all His ways, and holy in all His works." One aspect of God's nature is that He is righteousness.

Now let me be clear, we are not talking about self-righteousness. Even in the case of Noah, it was his faith in God that made him righteousness. No where in the scriptures do you find Noah pointing to himself or the things he has done to gain favor with God.

The righteousness that God desires us to possess can only be obtained by faith. We as humans are incapable of coming up with it on our own. When it comes to the righteousness that God desires, we are bankrupt.

But thanks be to God, He has made righteousness available to us through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus, through His life, death and resurrection from the dead gives us access to the righteousness that God requires. When we place our faith in Jesus, the righteousness of God covers us like a blanket so that when God looks upon us He sees the righteousness of Christ.

Does this imparted righteousness give us the license to live an unruly life, absolutely not! The righteousness of God in Christ supervises our behavior so that we might be a light in the midst of darkness. We need to be careful not to offend or take for granted what God has accomplished for us in the sacrifice of His beloved Son.

Righteouness is the inheritance of all those who are in Christ Jesus!