Hey everyone, happy Monday, it's E, and welcome to another episode of Monday Meditations.

Today we're going to be meditating on our God's righteousness.

The righteousness of God can be one of the more challenging attributes to understand, but it is truly one of the most important.

It is an attribute that God alone possesses perfectly, and we as humans, by our own

graces, do not. Charles Spurgeon has a great quote. He says, the greatest enemy to human souls

is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. Righteousness is

essential to the very being of who God is.

God's righteousness is the natural expression of his holiness, his goodness, his sinlessness,

and this divine righteousness is the very antithesis of sin. Paul even states in 2 Corinthians

chapter 5 verse 21, God made him who had no sin to be sin for us

so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. God is right and God is just, constantly and

continually. We can see this all throughout the Bible and constantly in our lives, even to this day.

And because God himself is righteous, he demands righteousness from us.

But we as sinners, we fall short of the glory of God. We are fallen by nature.

Jesus Christ came to undo that mischief of the fall for his people.

He has removed us from this breach of

command by his precious blood. So in that undeserved sacrificial exchange of Jesus dying for us,

we receive the Lord's righteousness for eternity. God counts us as righteous based only on the finished

sacrifice of Jesus. God is just in all he does. God is upright in his ways.

God operates with honesty, and God always does the right thing that is appropriate for the moment.

And it's important for you to understand that righteousness is not something that God does.

It is something that God is. And to put it another way, righteousness is a part of God's

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