Psalms 7:8 (NKJV) 8 ... Judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, And according to my integrity within me.
If we had to stand on our own merits would anyone be good enough to receive a reward? "Oh yes," there is the family down the street who take in orphaned children they love them all, the lady at the grocery store she always has something good to say, the preacher is standing tall for Christ. But that is not what I mean, the psalmist says, judge me, he is asking God to look at his good works, at the righteous way he lives.
In Matthew 19:17 Jesus is approached and addressed as good teacher, So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God, the good that we do is often unacceptable, because it benefits us, our good must come from a heart inhabited by God, it then becomes His good works. I must be empty of me and filled with the presence of God.
When He does judge us and He will, will the righteousness in your life be enough? Judge me?
Heavenly Father may our hearts be knit to You through Jesus your Son. May we look to Him in all our ways, may our thoughts be of how we might please You. Let every way that is not of and by You be demolished, let your will be done in our lives. Amen
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