“Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first begin by confessing your righteousness. It’s not just your sin that separates you from God; your righteousness does as well. Because, when you are convinced you are righteous, you don’t seek the forgiving, rescuing, and restoring mercy that can be found only in Jesus Christ.”
- Paul David Tripp, Whiter Than Snow (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2008), 22.
Blogger's note:
How many of us have admitted that we are not righteous at all? That the righteousness we have is only used to judge others based on our own self-bulit righteousness. The truth is that there are nothing righteous about ourselves; it is battered, spoilt, filthy and broken. It is nothing but useless and unless we are able to admit it, we shall never see the kingdom of God.
Isaiah 64:6
For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And all our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Let us bow down before the Righteous One and admit that we are unrighteous apart from Jesus who bestow upon us His righteousness through the work He has done.
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Amen to that! May each one of us wake up to strip off the flithy rag of self-righteousness that can only drive others away and make ourselves sick with stench; and be clothed with the very righteousness that comes from God alone - wise yet humble, prudent yet accepting, sensible yet loving...
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