Christ, Our Righteousness

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God--that is, our righteousness... I Cor 1:30

His is not now content with only thinking of the imputed righteousness as his robe; but putting on Jesus Christ, and seeking to be wrapped up in, to be clothed upon with Himself and His life, he feels how completely the righteousness of God is his, because the Lord our righteousness is his.

Before he understood this, he, too, often felt it difficult to wear his white road all day long; it was as if he especially had to put it on when he came into God's presence to confess his sins and seek new grace.

But now the living Christ Himself is his righteousness, that Christ who watches over and keeps and loves us as His own; it is not longer an impossibility to walk all day long enrobed in the loving presence with which He covers His people.


Andrew Murray