Whose Righteousness?

August 8, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

Psalm 35:28
And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.

 

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

 

     Christians today will often think of the term righteousness in a modern Biblical interpretation as being right with God, or better yet, being made right with God. We understand righteousness as a virtue or a characteristic of who God is. This is true, but that is not how we see Old Testament saints understanding the righteousness of God.

 

     When we read in the Old Testament how it speaks of declaring God’s righteousness, it is in combination with God’s keeping of His covenant promises to the people. Old Testament believers talked of how God did not break His Word to them through the covenants that had been made with them as a people. They were telling people they could trust this God, our God, who never goes back on His Word. The God we serve is faithful to keep every covenant He makes. When the Old Testament writers said they would speak of the righteousness of God, what they were saying was that they would tell everyone about God’s promises and how He had kept them. They went back to the scrolls, re-read the promises, and hid them in their heart. They knew God’s Words and how He would keep them.

 

     Our position in Christ makes us righteous. We are made right with God through His Son Jesus Christ. However, God’s righteousness secures the place we have in Christ. It is the fact that God will never go back on His Word that binds our righteousness. For He has declared a New Covenant in the blood of His Son Jesus. In the book of Hebrews, it is called a Better Covenant. Why, it is because this covenant is ALL in Christ the Son, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit. All we need to do is believe in the promise of Salvation that was completed in Christ on the cross of Calvary. He is still a God who keeps His Word. His Covenants can still be trusted today.

 

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

 

    We should be telling everyone we know of the righteousness of our God. That He is still a covenant-keeping God. He has made a covenant with you.

 

Who might be the first person that comes to mind whom you could tell?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  August 8, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Amos 4-6 / Psalm 35:17-28
Proverbs 8 / Mark 16

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
Psa. 27-32  /  Rom. 2