Home Grown Righteousness
I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
Romans 10:2-3 New Living Translation
I have no idea why I keep slipping into it. It is a lesson I need to re-learn often. I think I keep falling into it because of arrogance. I think I slip into home grown righteousness because it is more appealing. My home grown hooch is self glorifying. And like anyone else, I can get drunk on myself. I know I am inebriated on myself when my thoughts are only about me, and fulfilling my desires. I am drunk on me when my thoughts betray the scriptures, but I think I am in a state of complete understanding.
The scripture says that we can have religious zeal without godly knowledge. It says that without godly knowledge, we will conjure a home grown righteousness and that Christ puts an end to all that. So… what religious ideas have you created to remove the work of Christ from your life? Have you said that, “I go to church, so I am okay with God”? Have you dropped a check in the offering plate and purchased your righteousness? Do you live a good life, do the right things, and use Christian Lingo thinking that is enough? Maybe you are a bit drunk on yourself as I am on me.
The fact is that Christ did something for us that we are unable to do. His Righteousness has been imparted to us based solely on the will of God. We obtain this righteousness only by grasping the life line He threw us. What is the life line? It is the cross work of Christ Jesus.
Are you drunk on your righteousness, or are you secure in the righteousness of Christ?
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