NEW CREATION RIGHTEOUSNESS

Where will we find righteousness? There’s just one place to look. You’ll find it in the dictionary; or some such language book. What about the people who go each week to church? But you never find it there regardless how you search. But some are aiming at it, and lots of folk agree, It isn’t found in sinful folk, the likes of you and me. It may be my ambition and our collective aim, But we failed with distinction in spite of all we claim! But righteousness is something a Christ follower should find, Provided we’ve been given it and only if we bind, This quality around us and lock it there with glue. That’s how we all should walk in It, and let it be on view. But Jesus gave us righteousness the moment we were saved. It may not ever typify the way that we behave, But when we come to Jesus He washed our whole slate clean. So none of us can ever say it’s what we’ve never been. The feeling is miraculous. It makes you feel brand new. And in a sense we know it’s something all of us can do. Then, just as quick as blinking, we leave it all behind, Because it isn’t something that we expect to find. But Jesus Christ has given it. We got it all for free. So why is it it’s something we very seldom see? The problem is our lifestyle; we think that sin is great. But actually it’s something that all the Godhead hate. So why do we persist in it. Why is it we don’t quit? The problem is that most of us have not got used to it. Thinking we can walk in it just doesn’t come to mind. That’s why the Master’s righteousness is very hard to find. But we know it is possible, if we will just embrace; The Master and His righteousness in any time or place. It starts with a decision to follow in His way. And as we start to do it, His righteousness will stay. So let’s make a decision to be what He has said. When we can get a grip with it way deep down in our head; We’ll find that the impossible with Jesus is routine And we can be exactly what His Holy Word can mean; A vessel of repentance with righteousness entwined. A God breathed New Creation The Master has designed. Jim Strickland – written Monday, 08 August 2011