Jehovah TsidkenuSample

As justified people, we should grow in our hunger and thirst for God’s righteousness to be manifested in ourselves and in our world.  The forgiveness we receive from God ought to create a desire to see our status of righteousness become reality in the day-to-day decisions of our lives. 

At the point of our salvation, we are given a new nature that desires God’s righteousness, but this desire must be fed and nurtured so that it grows. One of the barriers many of us face in our growth in righteousness is that we are snacking so much on the world that we no longer have room to hunger and thirst for God’s righteousness. We need a steady diet of God’s Word, which reveals God’s standard of right and wrong, and the accountability of a community of people who are seeking God’s righteous rule in our own lives so that we can experience Jesus’s promise that 

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” (Matthew 5:6).

I want you to remember that Jeremiah 23 contains the promise that even though God’s people had sinned and had forsaken the one true God for other idols, still God promised that He would remain faithful to His covenant, forgiving them and restoring them to their land. 

We serve the same God who is both righteous and forgiving and who longs to restore us to a right relationship with Him: “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,” (1 John 1:9). 

As we come to know this righteous God and His provision for our righteousness, and as we pursue Him with a deep hunger and thirst for His righteousness, we will understand Him as the “Lord our righteousness,” and we will learn to call Him Jehovah Tsidkenu. 

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