Righteousness = God, what about us?

As you read today’s scripture taken from Luke 1:68-75 showing Zachariah’s praise song to God, be mindful of God’s Righteous character. Here is the definition of God’s righteousness-see how it fits with all God did and will do. Righteous God: God is right in all He does. He has always been right and always will be right. All of His words and actions are right. All of His plans are right. God has no sin and is positively perfect. God never lies. He is fair, just and faithful in all he does. We never need wonder if God is right, so we can trust God when we do not understand.

“Praise the Lord, the God of Israel,
    because he has visited and redeemed his people.
⁶⁹He has sent us a mighty Savior
    from the royal line of his servant David,
⁷⁰just as he promised
    through his holy prophets long ago.
⁷¹Now we will be saved from our enemies
    and from all who hate us.
⁷²He has been merciful to our ancestors
    by remembering his sacred covenant—
⁷³the covenant he swore with an oath
    to our ancestor Abraham.
⁷⁴We have been rescued from our enemies
    so we can serve God without fear,
⁷⁵in holiness and righteousness
    for as long as we live.

The people of Israel could count upon God to keep His promises, treat them with mercy, never leave or forsake them to their enemies and guide them in a walk that is good all the days of their lives. They knew their God was righteous in all ways.

Do you know Zachariah’s Righteous God? Through Jesus we can know God more fully and see His Holy Spirit working within us. Romans 3:10 says, ““None is righteous, no, not one;” Without Jesus we are lost and doomed to death because of our sinful nature. We cannot get ourselves clean enough for Holy God. Paul explains the solution to this dilemma in Philippians 3:8-9 “Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.”

Give thanks today for our Righteous God who loves and desires the best for us. He desires we seek Him and walk each day in His ways. He desires that we grow in righteousness through faith in Jesus. Blessings as you meditate on the Righteousness of God and your own ‘rightness’ with God through your faith in Christ Jesus.