He Draws out Your Righteousness

The righteousness that Jesus exhorts us to have, He gives to us as a gift (Romans 5: 17)

When it comes to manifesting this righteousness in our lives, though, that is also God's responsibility:

"And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday."(Psalm 37: 6)

and

"Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward."  (Isaiah 58: 8)

Our job is to receive His righteousness (Romans 5: 17), to desire it and take it in (Matthew 6: 33)


Yet how do we as believers in Christ "do" this? The previous verses will shed light on this:

"Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

"Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psalm 37: 4-5)

and

"If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

"Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." (Isaiah 58: 13-14)

We are to rest and trust in Him, leaning on His promises. We can take God at His Word, we can rest in all that He has done because He sent His Son to die for us on the Cross.

He gives us His righteousness, and by resting in Him He draws out the same to the world:

"Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God" (Philippians 1: 11)

and

"For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;" (Ephesians 5: 9)

Let God's Spirit bring out His righteousness in you.