The Righteous Shall Flourish!

 Thought For Today - September 11
The Righteous Shall Flourish! -- By: Robert A. Searles 

     "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness with him." Psalm 92: 12-15 

 But who, among the human race, are the "righteous"?"

As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one" Romans 3: 10

      "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away" Isaiah 64: 6

      There IS one who IS perfectly righteous. his name is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the perfect sinless lamb of God, the second person of the Trinity.

      "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. John 1:

 

      This same person, Christ Jesus, left the glory of heaven to come to earth to rescue and save sinners like me, and like you, and all the rest of mankind - "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3: 16

      If we have believed and confessed our sins, and accepted Christ as our savior, then we have been forgiven, "born again". and adopted into the family of God. We have become joint heirs with Christ, and will inherit eternal life. At the moment that we, by faith, say yes to Jesus, he strips us of our filthy rags of sin, and clothes us with the clean fresh garments of his perfect righteousness. We are justified by faith, and God the Father sees us as being clothed in the righteousness of Christ. Therefore, having been declared righteous by our faith, and acceptance of the finished work of Christ on the cross - his death, burial , resurrection, and asscention into heaven - we who once were lost sinners, are now made righteous, and can claim with confidence that we shall "Flourish like the palm tree, he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing. To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness with him." Psalm 92: 12-15

To all who may read this, I as a redeemed servant of the Lord, invite you to accept Christ today, receive his righteousness by faith, and flourish-be planted in the courts of our God forever.

                  Teleheip Publications Christian Literature Ministry