Day 3; We are the Righteousness of God

Texts	2Co 5:21 KJV For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Considerations for today	It sounds amazing to say we are God’s standard of righteousness but this indeed is a true saying and is worthy of all acceptance. Consider a certain father with his children. This man always ensures they are well fed and clothed. The children go to the best schools and have the best toys. Somebody observing can say this man’s children are the evidence that this man is a good man. So also, in God loving us and giving us his very nature by putting his Spirit on our inside (Eph 1:3), we are the evidence that God is righteous. In short we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus Understand this that righteousness is not a series of activities. It is a nature. To be righteous goes far beyond doing right things. It is to be made right by God. We are made right by God when we believe in the Lord Jesus. There is nothing a man can do of himself that can make him pleasing before the Father. For this reason he warned us that our own righteousness is like a filthy rag. The filthy rag here can be likened to clothe material which a woman has used to clean herself during her monthly period (in the days before sanitary pad). Our new status of righteousness is not based on rules and regulation which are after the ordinances and rudiments of this world or the commandments and doctrine of men. It is based on faith in the resurrection our Lord Jesus (Rom 10:9) When man sinned, nothing of man could satisfy God. God desiring a relationship with man decided he needed to rectify the situation. He called man and gave man His own righteousness so that anytime man came to Him bearing that righteousness, He would not see the man but the righteousness He has given the man. This has permanently solved the problem, brought man back into relationship with him and made the believing man the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Any person seeing the man bearing the righteousness of God in this way will say, indeed this man has become the righteousness of God.
Meditation scripture	Rom 5:17-21
Prayer	Father I thank you because I have become your display of righteousness to the world, I have been justified by you because I believe in Christ Jesus. Now I walk daily in the abundance of this grace and the gift of righteousness by which I reign in life. Amen
Bible in 1 year	Matt 9 – 12