God’s Righteousness
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010But, now the righteousness of God has been
revealed independently and altogether
apart from the Law, although actually it
is attested by the Law and the prophets.
(Romans 3.21).
It is truly vital to rightly understand that
this is a fallen world, our predicament in it is
indeed dire,
we are helpless, hopeless and desperate and
apart from God’s grace this world is doomed.
All we like sheep have gone astray, everyone to
his own way. There is none that does good, not one.
The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked, who
can know it? All have sinned and come short of
the glory of God. The Law and the Prophets clearly
expound the Fix we are in. St. Paul said that
there is no good in him, he could not do what he
should do and did what he should not do.
We are bound in time and space, limited in
possibility and ability.
However, we have eternity
set in our hearts as Solomon said. We know there
has to be a point to it all and we reflect on
our origin, a time when there was abundance, peace,
love and only goodness in the Garden
where Adam and Eve strolled with God in the cool
of the day.
There was a time when the
sun stood still and time stopped upon Gibeon
and the moon did not move in the valley of
Ayalon.
We know there is a future with no pain, no sorrow, no tears
and no war.
We know there is a future resurrection when the
graves will be opened and the sea will give up the
dead.
We know that there is a judgeement coming when
the Jesus Christ will judge everyone
righteously because He is the righteous Son of God
and Son of man.
He is our righteousness.
He is our redeemer. He is our future.
But, now, refers to the new order of things, to the
shape of things to come and our escape of
the desperate Fix we are in.
This is because the Kingdom has come to us.
The Kingdom is among us , because the King has come.
The King of kings and Lord of lords has come.
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, says St. John in
Revelation, for the first heaven and
the first earth are passed away.
But, now we hear the voice of God which is
heard in the Law and has also spoken by the
prophets, speaking through the Holy Spirit
and guiding us.
But, now in these last days
God has spoken to us in the Person of His Son,
Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner
of all things, also by and through Whom He
created the worlds and the reaches of space
and the ages of time (He made, produced, built,
operated and arranged them in order).
He is the sole expression of the glory of God
(the Light-being, the out-raying, the radiance
of the divine) and He is the perfect imprint and
very image of God’s nature, upholding and
maintaining, guiding and propelling the
universe by His mighty word of power.
When He had by offering Himself accomplished
our cleansing of sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down
at the right hand of the divine majesty on high.
(Hebrews 1.2 & 3).
HALLELUJAH! PRAISE, HONOR, GLORY AND POWER BE UNTO JESUS WHOM THE HOLY FATHER HAS
SEATED AT HIS RIGHT! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!