A SURRENDERED LIFE (Part 2 of 3)
Last week, we look at one aspect of a surrendered life – to submit to God’s ruler-ship. This week, we will look at another aspect of a surrendered life.
2. A SURRENDERED LIFE SEEKS GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS
A surrendered life seeks God’s righteousness. What is God’s righteousness?
The righteousness of God is an aspect of God’s nature which expresses his unique moral perfection and his readiness to save sinners. It is made known especially through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
God’s nature is righteous (Ps 119:137). His actions are righteous (Dan 9:14) and His law shows his righteousness (Ps 19:8-9). God’s righteousness is a pattern for human living. When we learn to live according to God’s righteousness, we start to live a righteous life.
“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the spirit.”
2 Cor 3:18
We want to be more and more like Christ everyday and all of us know that it can be difficult and very challenging in this sin-filled world. But the Bible is full of story of people who lived a life of righteousness in their days. Noah, Job and Daniel are three men in the Scripture credited with extraordinary righteousness.
“…even if these three men - Noah, Daniel and Job - were in it, they could save only themselves by their righteousness, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
Eze 14:14
He was ridiculed and laughed at on trying to build a boat for nothing. Yet, Noah was not influenced by the wickedness in his generation.
- Job (Job 1:1, 3B, 4, 5, 8)
Job was tested on his love for God through his possessions, his physical health and his peers and yet Job trusted and believed in the God he serves.
All throughout the book of Daniel, we read of how Daniel was tested again and again, but he remained righteous and holy—faithful to his God.
- He was a man of the Word (Dan 9:2)
- He was a man of prayer and fasting (Dan9:3)
- He was a man of the Holy Spirit (Dan 5:11)
In this sin-filled generation, will we go all our way to pursue the righteousness of God? Will we be like Noah, Job and Daniel who, though they are in the world, but know that they are not of the world?
He who pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honour.”
Pro 21:21
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Matt 5:6
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