*_Above Only Devotional_* *Christ is Your Righteousness!*

*_Above Only Devotional_*

*Christ is Your Righteousness!*

Romans 10:4 (KJV) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.

Romans 10:4 (GNB) For Christ has brought the Law to an end, so that everyone who believes is put right with God.

Romans 10:4 (NLT) For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

Romans 10:4 (LB) They don’t understand that Christ gives to those who trust in him everything they are trying to get by keeping his laws. He ends all of that.

God’s definition of righteousness is not based on obeying the Law but on our having faith in Christ. Romans 3:21-22 (GNB) says, “But now God’s way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it. God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, …” A divine exchange too place on the Cross. Christ took our place and became sin for us so that we can become the righteousness of God in Him, 2 Cor. 5:21. Jesus has forgiven and taken away all your sins. God has no record of them and He will never have a record of them. The Bible says, “For God was in Christ, restoring the world to himself, no longer counting men’s sins against them but blotting them out. This is the wonderful message he has given us to tell others” 2 Cor. 5:19 (LB). In talking about the New testament, the Bible says, “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more”, Jer. 31:34, Heb. 8:12. This is what David was amazed about in Romans 4:6-8.

Because of your faith in Christ, you can now stand before God, man and the devil without a single sense of guilt or inferiority. Because of Christ, you are perfect in the sight of God and you have a right to all of the power and the blessings and the glory of God. Hebrews 10:14 (LB) says, “For by that one offering he made forever perfect in the sight of God all those whom he is making holy.” It is your accepting that Christ has made you righteous that empowers you to manifest God’s righteousness and receive the abundance of His grace and His gifts of righteousness so we can reign in life by Christ, Rom. 5:17.

Faith Declaration:

Christ is my righteousness. He has paid for all my sins and He has made me perfect in the sight of God. I am righteous and blessed.

Bible in one year reading plan: Exodus 12-13, Matthew 16.