How Righteous Are You?

Romans 12:13 “For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.”

What does this verse mean to you? Does it challenge you at all to change the way you see yourself after hearing God’s word? Hopefully it does. Sometimes we tend to get caught up in the idea that we can do whatever we want because we go to church every Sunday, or because we open our bible throughout the week. This is a dangerous trap to fall into because we lose sight of glorifying God in whatever we do, as 1 Corinthians 10:31 tells us.  How can we glorify God in all that we do if we don’t change our lives for God’s glory when we hear the truth that comes from God’s word and make no changes to our daily life?

It’s not about what we do that makes us righteous in God’s eyes, it’s what we do when God shows us our sins and we are presented with a choice to change the direction we are going by putting off that sin and putting something that will please God in place of it. I challenge you to think about your relationship with Christ and how righteous you are in His eyes when you are faced with conviction.

~Nick~