His righteousness

Back to basics today.  I guess I sometimes need that, need to be reminded of God's way of looking at things and my place in Him.  Maybe someone else needs it as well.

Yesterday I was reading "The Story" and  I was up to the part where the Israelites were about to be set free from Egypt.  You know the story, where the Lord institutes the Passover.  The Israelites were to  kill a perfect lamb and smear the blood upon the door frame of their homes, this way when the Angel of Death came through Egypt, they would be passed over and only the 1st born of the Egyptians would die.  Of course this story reminds me that in the same way, the shed blood of Jesus Christ is applied to my life, and God passes me over for the penalty of my sins.

Fast forward to today.  Taking a break from "The Story", I went back to working on my Scriptures from "31 Days of Praise".  I have been meditating on Isaiah 53"1-12 and today was still led to stay on it for a while longer.  Specifically the verses 10-11 which say:  Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief.  When You make His soul an offering for sin.  He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.  He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.  By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities.  

God was satisfied with the offering Jesus made for my sin.  His labor has bought my pardon, and I have been justified.  As has anyone who has applied His sacrifice to their hearts and lives.

On to 2 Corinthians 5:21:  For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.  

Once again, God reassures me that I walk around in His righteousness.  I go back to living out of a place of victory.  That victory being that I have become the righteousness of God in Him.

Isn't our God wonderful.  Not only did He do all this, plan all this.  You can see this plan woven back 3500 years.  And it is amazing.  In those little lambs that died on the 1st Passover night, we see Jesus, thousands of years later, dying for us, who would not come to being until thousands of years after His death and resurrection.

And then, this awesome God of ours, shares this plan in His written Word, and patiently reaffirms it again and again.  I like Him !!

Thank You Lord for never tiring of teaching your children, even when we need to go back to basics.  Thank You for not seeing the ugly stains of my sin, but instead, washing them away with the shed blood of Jesus Christ and for giving me Your own righteousness, something I could never earn or achieve on my own.