Days 249-251 – September 6-8, 2021
Scriptures: Job 30-33, Psalm 17, 103, Romans 1-3 Romans Bible Project So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. (Job 32:1) 2 From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right! 3 You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress. (Psalm 17:2-3) 9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever. 10 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. (Psalm 103:9-10) 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:21–24) I have been gone and the internet wasn’t available to post, so I’ve combined the last couple of days of reading on the theme of righteousness. Job’s friends no longer listen to him. In one Psalm (17) there is a sense of one’s righteousness, and in another, 103 – thanking God for his forgiveness. One sees their own sort of self-righteousness in view in these texts. One moment you see a trusting in ones own righteousness, whereas another reveals a clear sense of the need for God’s forgiveness for their sins. In Paul’s letter to the churches in Rome, we get perhaps one of the most talked about versus in all of the Bible, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” We are all sinners. Job, we don’t believe to have been perfectly righteous. His friends couldn’t get a word in edge wise. They give up, perhaps thinking, He’s righteous in his own eyes, he doesn’t need us! We need forgiveness. We need hope. The book of Romans is going to lead us towards the forgiveness of God and the righteousness of Jesus made possible through his faith. It’s verse 22 that resonated with me most, “the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe.” When that is contrasted with Job and the Psalms, we celebrate the faith of Christ and his forgiveness. God relents in his anger, and offers us true life in Him. We receive Christ’s righteousness through his faith and our faith in him. We have all sinned, but Christ is greater than our sin. Turn to him, and praise God that his anger has not lasted forever. He draws us near to him through Christ. You are redeemed, Jordan
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AuthorJordan Ickes, Minister of Etna Green Church of Christ. Archives
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