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Morning and Evening

January 31, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The Lord our Righteousness." — Jeremiah 23:6 · KJV

It will always give a Christian the greatest calm, quiet, ease, and peace to think of the perfect righteousness of Christ. How often the saints of God are downcast and sad! I do not think they ought to be; I do not think they would be if they could always see their perfection in Christ. Some are always talking about corruption, the depravity of the heart, and the inborn evil of the soul. This is quite true, but why not go a little further and remember that we are "perfect in Christ Jesus"? No wonder that those who dwell on their own corruption wear such downcast looks; but surely if we call to mind that "Christ is made unto us righteousness," we shall be of good cheer. What though distresses afflict me, though Satan assaults me, though there is much to pass through before I reach heaven — all this is provided for me in the covenant of divine grace; there is nothing lacking in my Lord, for Christ has done it all. On the cross He said, "It is finished!" — and if it is finished, then I am complete in Him, and may rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, "not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." You will not find this side of heaven a holier people than those who take into their hearts the doctrine of Christ's righteousness. When the believer says, "I live on Christ alone; I rest on Him solely for salvation; and I believe that, however unworthy, I am still saved in Jesus," then there rises up, as a motive of gratitude, the thought: "Shall I not live to Christ? Shall I not love Him and serve Him, seeing I am saved by His merits?" "The love of Christ constraineth us," "that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them." If we are saved by imputed righteousness, we shall greatly value imparted righteousness.