The Right Righteousness
“For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Rom. 10:3-4
The Apostle tells us we are either going about attempting to establish our own righteousness, or we have submitted ourselves unto the righteousness of God. It must be one or the other; there cannot be any part of the one added to the other. It’s like Daniel’s iron and clay, they won’t mix! It’s the perfect righteousness of Christ we are clothed with or the filthy rags of our self-righteousness.
Self-righteousness only clothes the outward, the part man sees, but leaves the inner man naked before God. To cap the cesspool within us, with the whitewash of our own righteousness, will not satisfy a Holy God. For He alone sees the heart and smells the nauseating stench that ascends from this pit of corruption.
It is not difficult to determine which of the two types of righteousness one is robed in. In the story of the publican and the sinner, God gives us an acid test. Those who trust in their own righteousness, says Jesus, despise those who do not come up to their outward standards. But the righteousness which is of God always shows mercy to such people.
God’s imputed inward righteousness always works its way outward; man-made righteousness never gets past the first layer of skin. (rds)
by an Old Disciple
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