Righteousness

This morning I read about righteousness. Since the beginning of the year I have been striving to become more righteous for a couple different reasons. The main one is so that I can be more intimate with God. This leads to the second one: so that I can pray for others, and since my relationship with God is where it needs to be, my prayers are heard and answered.

So this morning I was in Philippians 3, and the passage was:

"...be found in Him, not having righteousness that comes from the law, but coming from faith in Christ -- the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith" (verse 9).

This made me realize that it not what I do that makes me righteous, I can't try to merit God's approval and blessing by following the law, but rather having faith in him.

-Josh