THE LOVE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD

This time I want to point out to you how wonderful God’s Love and Righteousness are!

God’s Word, the Bible, has many verses referring to God’s love. Below are only five of them, but I think you’ll get the picture.

1 John 4:8 – “Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love.”

Jude 1:21 – “Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”

Jonah 2:8 – “Those who cling to worthless idols, turn away from God’s love for them.”

Psalm 136:26 – “Give thanks to the God of Heaven. His love endures forever.”

Romans 8:38-39 – “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, ³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

God can’t help but love us, not because we deserve His love, but because His very nature IS love! God is love! What a loving and mighty God we serve.

The reason God the Father sent His Son, Jesus, to earth to die on the cross and then rise again, was because of His great love for mankind. He wanted us to spend all of Eternity with Him and that is not possible to do without being righteous (perfect) in God’s sight through the forgiveness of our sins through Jesus paying for our sin penalties for us. In order for our penalties to be paid, the person paying for them had to be Perfect. A sinner could not have paid for them because their sins also needed to be paid for. Only a Perfect Person could provide the sacrificial payment for our sins on that cross. That leads me into God’s Righteousness.

God the Father, God the Son, Jesus, and God the Holy Spirit are completely Righteous. They are the One True God (in 3 Persons). God has never sinned. Sinning is the one and only thing God can’t do and will never do. Below are five verses about God’s Righteousness.

Psalm 71:19 – “Your righteousness, God, reaches to the heavens, You, who have done great things. Who is like You, God?”

Philippians 3:8c-9 – “…That I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the (keeping of the) law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the Righteousness that comes from God on the basis of FAITH.”

Isaiah 5:16 – “But the Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the Holy God shows Himself Holy in Righteousness.”

Matthew 6:31-33 – “So do not worry saying, ‘What shall we eat or what shall we drink or what shall we wear? ³² For the pagans run after all these things and your Heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”

Psalm 111:3 – “Full of splendor and majesty is His work, and His Righteousness endures forever.”

Ephesians 4:23-24 – “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; ²³to be made new in the attitude of your minds; ²⁴and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true Righteousness and Holiness.”

God is a Perfect God. He cannot be anything else. He is perfectly Loving and perfectly Righteous. – Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, Almighty!!! – who WAS in the past, who IS in the present and who WILL BE in the future! He has ALWAYS EXISTED AND WILL NEVER NOT EXIST and has always and will be Perfect! And we think we’re more impressive and important than Him? Hmmm…I think not!

We’re His created beings. He sent a part of Himself (His Son, Jesus) to earth to become our sins’ penalty payment by shedding His blood and dying on the cross and then rising again to conquer death and provide us with Eternal Life in Heaven with Him. What a Perfect Gift to us, IF, we humble ourselves and confess our sins to Him and then repent of those sins (change our minds about those sins and stop doing them) and then put our trust by FAITH in what He did on the cross for us. What Mercy and Grace God desires to give us! I’m so glad I’ve made that decision for myself. How about you? Have you made this decision, yet? If not, why not?

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Sharon