Made right

“I will refresh the weary and satisfy the faint.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭31‬:‭25‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Jesus said, “blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness for they will be satisfied”(Matt 5:6). Why would I hunger and thirst after righteousness? What is righteousness anyway?

A definition of righteousness is ‘free from guilt or sin’. Mankind has created a shortcut here and determined that righteousness is what I think it is, what ‘feels good’. God does not factor into the equation. Without a conviction of sin, we will go to our grave judging ourselves to be righteous, and that God should accept our determination. Many will be rudely shocked.

However, there are those who have a hunger to find God and in finding Him they find righteousness, true righteousness, His definition and His criteria. 

David said, “Blessed is the one whose sin the Lord does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.”Psalms‬ ‭32‬:‭2‬ ‭NIV‬‬

David knew something many do not know, God is the judge and giver of forgiveness.

 John 3:16, 17 says:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him,” (In other words make it righteous).

‭‭Amen!