Morning, January 31<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Lord our Righteousness.\u201d(Jeremiah 23:6)<\/p>\n
It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would if they could always see their perfection in Christ. There are some who are always talking about corruption, and the depravity of the heart, and the innate evil of the soul. This is quite true, but why not go a little further, and remember that we are \u201cperfect in Christ Jesus.\u201d It is no wonder that those who are dwelling upon their own corruption should wear such downcast looks; but surely if we call to mind that \u201cChrist is made unto us righteousness,\u201d we shall be of good cheer. What though distresses afflict me, though Satan assault me, though there may be many things to be experienced before I get to heaven, those are done for me in the covenant of divine grace; there is nothing wanting in my Lord, Christ hath done it all. On the cross he said, \u201cIt is finished!\u201d and if it be finished, then am I complete in him, and can rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, \u201cNot having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.\u201d You will not find on this side heaven a holier people than those who receive into their hearts the doctrine of Christ’s righteousness. When the believer says, \u201cI live on Christ alone; I rest on him solely for salvation; and I believe that, however unworthy, I am still saved in Jesus;\u201d then there rises up as a motive of gratitude this thought\u2014\u201cShall I not live to Christ? Shall I not love him and serve him, seeing that I am saved by his merits?\u201d \u201cThe love of Christ constraineth us,\u201d \u201cthat they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves but unto him which died for them.\u201d If saved by imputed righteousness, we shall greatly value imparted righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Morning, January 31<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Lord our Righteousness.\u201d(Jeremiah 23:6)<\/p>\n
It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace, to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often are the saints of God downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be. I do not think they would if they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-43092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning","tag-morning-by-morning","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}