We Are Made The Righteousness Of God Through Christ

-February 20, 2022-

Good morning, happy Lord’s Day,

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

(2 Corinthians 5:21).

Before we were saved we were dead in our transgressions and sins, separated from God, lost, without God and without hope in this world. We were on our way to hell, an eternity apart from God. But God so loved us and saved us. John 4:10 says, “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” How could a holy God allow us as sinners into heaven? Only through the blood of Jesus. He took our place on the cross, bore our sins, and paid our sin debt.

Oh what an exchange it was! Jesus was perfect and sinless, we were utterly sinful through and through. Jesus died so that we might live. He took our sins and as a result we are made the righteousness of God in Him. God has imputed the righteousness of Christ to us. So when God sees us now, He sees us through our Savior. We are now clothed in white robes of righteousness.

Before our salvation, it was a different story. Isaiah 64:6 says, “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” But now we are made holy and righteous in Jesus Christ our Lord. It says of Abraham, our father in faith, “And he believed in the Lord, and it was accounted to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:6). This took place long before the law was given through Moses. Righteousness could never come through the law. The law exposed our sin, but through the sacrifice of Christ we are saved and made righteous in God’s sight.

As we gather to remember the Lord in the Breaking of Bread, we reflect His perfect sacrifice on the cross and how our sins are forgiven and we stand righteous before Him. We are not worthy nor will we ever be. But God loved us and made us right with Him. We were unworthy but not worthless in the sight of God. The hymn writer Edward Mote wrote, “My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean Jesus’ name.”

Have a blessed Lord’s Day rejoicing in our salvation. Stay safe and healthy.

In His eternal love,

Dean