Thursday, July 20, 2017

Armor of God: Breastplate of Righteousness


For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” Rom 10:4 NKJV
In our struggle with the world and its strong stand against truth we will encounter many challenges to our faith. One of the greatest that the prince of this world will employ is the truth of our own unworthiness. That is a true accusation made against us by the prince of liars. He hurls it at us to dissuade us from trying to follow our Captain. “You are not worthy to be in His army,” he says. But the point of being in Christ’s army is that He has made us worthy. We must never forget that we have been called by Him and made worthy by Him.
Paul honestly states that in our flesh dwells no good thing in a God-ward direction. We are sinners and He is holy and righteous. But God in His great love sent Jesus to die that our sins might be forgiven for His sake. Believing in Christ means that we have now put on the righteousness of Christ and have given up our own dirty sins in exchange. Whenever Satan assaults us with the truth of our own unrighteousness, the breastplate of righteousness supplied by Christ can deflect and defeat the fiery arrows of our enemy. Our own good deeds will always fail at the challenge of Satan, but the Righteousness of Christ will always prevail.

Dear Father, Thank You for giving me robes of righteousness in exchange for my filthy rags of sin. Amen. 


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