Established in Righteousness
February 3, 2016
Devotions:
“"In righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.” Isaiah 54:14 NASB
In this passage at the end of Isaiah 54 there are five things that are the inheritance of the believer. The condition to walk in these five things is to be established in righteousness. This is not talking about actions but belief. How secure is your faith in the fact that you are the righteousness of God in Chirist? Religion teachs that we are righteous only when we act righteous. But the gospel is that we have been made the righteousness of God as a gift regardless of our actions. This is not a ticket to live like the world. God's gift of righteousness when received changes us. He puts His desire within us to do His will. He removes the old man, the heart of iniquity and replaces it with a new creation.
Our eyes are shrouded with the lies of the devil that when we are saved we are still just sinners saved by grace. In reality we have become the righteousness of God. God never changes and our righteousness never changes. But we must be established in that righteousness. When negative things happen to us do we go to default mode of we deserve what ever negative comes our way, sickness, disease, poverty, catastrophe...? Or do we take the word of God and our security in the righteousness that He has given us and with stand the attack, expecting God to fulfill His word and move on the gift that He has given us?
Are we absolutely sure that we are the righteousness of God in Christ and that means that we stand in the place of God's blessings, protection, fulfillment...?
We meditate on the verses about our righteousness not to become righteous but because we are righteous and our minds are then renewed as to who we are.
Ephesians 4:23,24, Romans 3:26,28, Romans 5:18,19, 1 Corinthians 1:30 To name a few. Become established in God's righteous in you!