Robe of Righteousness
"I have clothed you in My righteousness and holiness. I see you attired in these radiant garments, which I bought for you with My blood....it is a pure gift." from Jesus Calling by Sarah Young.
This picture of my granddaughter Marisa shows her happily admiring a beautiful white dress and cloak she is trying on at the store. It reminds me of the beautiful, pure robe of righteousness that Jesus clothes us with when we are redeemed by His cleansing blood of salvation.
Imputed righteousness means that because of our faith in Jesus, God looks at Jesus' righteousness as if it were our righteousness. God's Son Jesus is without sin and completely righteous. We humans are born in sin and in our natural selves are completely without righteousness. But, something wonderful and mysterious and miraculous happens when we accept Jesus as our Savior. He frees us from the wages of sin AND He wraps (covers) us in His pure righteousness. Thereafter, when God looks upon us He no longer sees our sin, but rather He sees His precious Son's righteousness which we have been given as a priceless gift.
Marisa twirled in delight when she tried on that elegant white garment. May our hearts "twirl in delight" by God's promise that we, His children, are clothed in the elegant white garments of Christ's righteousness and have His perfection counted as ours by our Holy Father God.
"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" 2 Corinthians 5:21
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