Right Standing

‘You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink  is  the best meal you’ll ever eat’ Matt.5:6 [MSG]

Satisfaction is only promised when we channel this seemingly insatiable desire to righteousness. Jesus says ‘blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness. ‘In fact some people even try to fill the hunger and the thirst in them with reading the Bible but with the wrong motif. Some read twenty chapters of the Bible daily. Should you read the Bible? Yes! Should you read twenty chapters? Yes, but when you are reading the Bible you should be seeking the person Jesus. So when you read the Bible seeking Jesus, you will encounter this living water. Jesus is saying ‘blessed are you when you hunger and thirst for righteousness. ‘

So what is righteousness, so that we can begin to hunger and thirst for it and so that we can really be filled? From what Jesus says, it is obvious that righteousness is the guarantee of our satisfaction. So what is righteousness? Theologians tell us correctly so that righteousness is simply being in right standing with God. Therefore, righteousness is being in right standing with God – in relationship with Him and secondly in the representation of Him. So in my relationship with God, am I in right standing with Him? In my representation of God, am I in right standing with God? Representation of God as the Bible puts it is ‘don’t be deceived, he that doeth righteousness is righteous’. In other words, in representing God, you cannot say because someone is below you then you torment the person. That is not righteousness. Until you are able to steal and nobody will find out and you still don’t steal that is when you know that you are not a thief. Until you have the chance to commit adultery and nobody will find out and you still do not do it then you are not an adulterer. A lot of people are hooked on pornography because it sells a false sense of privacy. When you still say no to pornography then that is a proper representation of God. That is righteousness – right standing with God in relationship and in representation of God. At the center of righteousness is God.

Prayer: Father, help me by Your Spirit to walk worthy of You in my relationship with You and in representation of You, in Jesus Name.