Now that my Bible Study group has finished Priscilla
Shirer’s Armor of God study, I need to keep moving in the right direction. Continuing this series of blog posts taken
from the list Priscilla included in her 6th week of Bible study
regarding our identity and inheritance in Christ. I pray these reflections will open your eyes
to how much God loves you. Read them as
if you wrote them. Meditate on
them. God bless you.
I have Christ’s
righteousness
I am humbled and so grateful that I can approach my Heavenly
Father and not be ashamed or concerned that He will reject me. He looks me straight in my eyes and gives me
His undivided attention even though my best deeds are like filthy rags to
Him. He welcomes me, a sinner, into His
divine presence which cannot be in the presence of sin! There is some supernatural stuff going on
here. It’s called “Christ has clothed me
in His righteousness”. Christ’s sinless
virtue covers me because He died on the cross to save me and I have accepted
His sacrificial gift and confessed that He is my Savior. So when I approach my Heavenly Father, He
doesn’t see my sin or my filthy rags. He
sees His perfect, precious Son! And
that’s how He looks at me…lovingly, longingly, not with the judgment or disgust
that I actually deserve.
Romans 5:19 says Christ’s obedience is what makes men
righteous. We are taught in 2
Corinthians 5:21 that the sinless Son of God became sin for us so we might
become the righteousness of God. Those
powerful verses tell me that I am valuable to God. Not only has He given me a wonderful gift
that has elevated my status…He willingly paid the ultimate price of dying a
painful and humiliating death on the cross while I was still a sinner with
filthy rags.
He loves you that way, too.
Have you accepted His free gift of salvation by confessing Him as your
personal Savior? If not, don’t wait
another minute. Do it, now. Call a Christian friend to help you or use my
prompts in the left pane of this blog page.
Then let a trusted Christian friend or Pastor know about the decision
you’ve made so they can help you navigate the road ahead.
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