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There is a small neighborhood coffee shop where I enjoy doing much of my writing.

I spend hours each day listening to people order coffee.

Often with very precise instructions, like ordering a non-fat, no-foam, triple-shot

vanilla soy latte with caramel drizzle, and if just one ingredient is missing, the customer

won't hesitate to bring it back up to the counter, proclaiming, this isn't right.

Well, if there's a right way to place a coffee order, are there right behaviors too?

Well, yes, of course.

The Bible's standard for human righteousness is God's own perfection in every attribute

and behavior.

God's laws describe His own character, and it sets the standard by which He measures our

own righteousness.

But if not God, what or who is your standard for right living?

The theme of this meditation from Romans 3 is coming to know the nature and character

of God who is right, just and fair, the very definition of a righteous judge.

So to begin, whether your eyes are just now opening to the hope of a new day or finally

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