Righteousness

Andrew Wommack once wrote: " No one can ever be righteous in the sight of God through his own righteousness. Our actions benefit us in relationships with people and prevent satan from having an opportunity against us, but they cannot make us right (righteous) with God. We must trust in God and receive His gift of righteousness completely on the basis of faith in what Jesus did for us. Righteousness is not what Jesus has done for us PLUS some minimum standard of holiness that we have to accomplis."

I think most of my life I struggled with this concept . I recall one of my primary school teachers telling us that no one will ever be able to obey all of the commandments and rules that God has set forth. This honestly confused me. She probably had a point that she was driving home but after that sentence, I think I fell into a trans because I did not hear the rest *hides* It became a rather serious issue as doubts of God even being remotely good crept in. I failed to understand why He would place them knowing full well how incapable we are to adhere to them completely. I viewed God as cruel and unfair. It made little to no sense to me why He deliberately placed all of us in such a guilt packed life and still would not afford us the ability to be perfect and righteous in obeying His commandments. All this God bashing carried on until I came to a crisp understanding of the purpose of Jesus Christ  and the concept of living under the dispensation of grace and not under the bondage of the mosaic laws.

 See, not only did this ease my anger towards God, but it made me become repentant of all those te
dious efforts of trying to attain righteousness and almost always failing and then blaming God for being impossible with His hi-tech (lol) standards. It gave me an indepth understanding of why He has made it clear to Christians time and again that we are incapable of reaching His standards (without His gifting) because should we be able, the whole idea of Him being God is entirely defeated. I have to say, I have fallen deeper and deeper in love with this God who displays my need for Him amidst my 'childish' knowledge of what I wrongfully perceived as my actual need for Him. (I had thought I needed Him to change things so that I can reach the standars, only to realise I needed to yield to His gifting power in order that through my faith I may boldy confess that I AM THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD THROUGH FAITH). It has become an even simpler journey of understanding my flaws and inabilities in relation to His enabling power and His his perfecting hand. I am confident in His timing and that He daily showers me with the gift of righteousness. I am also resting in His timing which ultimately always works wonders for me, without me interfering. God though hehehehehe.