Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right. —Psalm 106:3
Did you know that you’ve been blessed in heavenly realms? Do you understand that this blessing contains every spiritual blessing that there is? That’s right! If Jesus is your Lord and Savior, then it’s available to you right now. Unfortunately, most religious people can’t wrap their narrow minds around this basic concept. They still think that God qualifies men and women for blessing according to some strict code of conduct. That’s not true. The Word of God reveals that the righteous will live by faith.
Let’s break that down. “The righteous” would be you and me. Scripture explains that Jesus became sin on the cross so that we might become the perfected, righteous people of God. Because we have made Jesus both Lord and Savior of our lives, we have become His righteousness. So “the righteous” includes anyone who is born of God through the new birth. We enter into and release the awesome blessings of Christ in our lives through faith.
God doesn’t look at us through critical eyes. God made the decision a long time ago that He would look at us through grace and mercy. Not only that, but He also looks at us through the precious blood of Jesus. The blood changes His perception of our actions. Why? Because we’ve been justified. As He sees it, we are constantly doing what is right. If He sees us as pure and righteous, then that’s how we should view ourselves as well.
It takes faith to see ourselves that way. We naturally want to remember every little thing that we’ve ever done, even when God has cast our sin as far as the east is from the west and has made the choice to remember it no more. Once we’ve repented and asked God to forgive us, He does exactly what He said He would do. He violently throws our sin into a sea of forgetfulness and He cleanses us of all unrighteousness. It takes faith to accept this basic, biblical truth.
You have to begin to see and accept that God does not count your sin against you. This may be hard at first, but if you can’t see yourself as righteous, you’ll never walk in the fullness of God. Your lack of faith will nullify the power of the blessing. Help yourself see it by spending time in the Word. Renew your thinking to the way God thinks. If you spend time in the perfect law of the gospel, you’ll begin to see yourself as God sees you. This new faith will not only allow you to boldly access the power of God, but it will also activate the blessings of Christ for you.
So do what’s right. Be obedient. Stop listening to the lies of Satan and the views of this world. Sure, you have shortcomings and you miss it from time to time, but God has made you His perfected righteousness. If you can accept it by faith, then a whole new world of God’s kingdom will begin to open itself up to you. If you choose to reject this simple revelation of the gospel, you won’t just be rejecting the truth, you’ll be rejecting the power of the blessing. Scriptural Context Psalm 106:1-8
Concept Reinforcement Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him. —Romans 4:8
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. —2 Corinthians 5:21
Clearly no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.” —Galatians 3:11
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it-he will be blessed in what he does. —James 1:25
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