Amen and thank you for this simple, sweet lesson I learned as a young child. How often have I thought myself strong enough to withstand sin? As often as I have been wrong. Sin has burdened me not with carrying the burden of sin for I am forgiven, but darkening my spirit in the eyes of others who saw my sin before me and knew my pride and arrogance.
Reading commentary on Jeremiah 22 today, I noticed that he word for the coming redeemer that Jeremiah spoke of was “yahweh somehting or other” (can’t remember the second name) but it meant “The lord of our righteousness”
The Importance of the phrasing means that he is our righteousness- he is the source of our perfect righteousness through him- he alone is what makes us righteous. Try as we might, our nature is opposed to his righteousness, and God k ows that and so provided a way for the desperately wicked, us, to become righteous so that we can stand in his presence perfect and blameless. In God’s presence, there can be no sin, because he is perfectly righteous, and sin and his holiness can not be present together.
I thank God that I do not have to strive to be blameless so that I can receive salvation. He has provided the way to perfect righteousness, and all I had to do was acknowledge that and accept christ as savior.
The fo.lowin was by Luther which proclaimed that christ is indeed our righteousness, and the power that that fact conveys to us.
“You, Sir Satan, your menaces and terrors trouble me not. For why? There is one whose name is called the Lord our righteousness, on whom I believe. He it is who hath abrogated the law, condemned sin, abolished death, destroyed hell, and is a Satan to thee, O Satan.” (Luther, cited in Trapp)