Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. Pr21.21
If we are not accepted by God because of our personal works of righteousness but through our faith in Christ, why do Christians feel the need to do what is right. Well, for one reason, it is common knowledge that doing what is right is the right thing to do. We know that it is, even when we don’t do it. That we don’t always do what is right, is an important clue that something is wrong inside us. That something is one reason, though we might not know it at first, why we come to Christ. We look to Him, not only to forgive us when we do wrong, but to fix us somehow, so that we can do those things we know are right and good and true. He begins that healing the moment we invite Him into our lives. He will finish it the moment we enter completely into His.
Self-righteous people do right for all the wrong reasons. It is when we abandon our egotistical expressions of pride, that we are able to pursue right for all the right reasons. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.” Those who come to Christ are brought into a right relationship with the Father. To borrow a Regan expression, our right relationship with God begins to “trickle down.” All that is right with Him, starts to trickle down into all of our other relationships. We desire to be right with our spouse and our neighbor. Christ will even bring us into a right relationship with ourselves and all created things such as work and play. We pursue what is right not to merit God’s blessings but because we have them in Christ. They are simply trickling down on everything else. 2/7/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
