Monday 6 April 2009

Live for righteousness

who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. - 1 Peter 2v24

Jesus’ focus was not on getting back at those who caused Him problems and attacked Him. He had one goal in mind – to go to the cross and bear our sins there.

As we enter into what is commonly referred to as ‘Holy Week’ (though this week is not more holy than any other) we do well to reflect on the cross and the implications of it.

Good Friday (I am not going to fight over what day of the week Jesus died) is more than just another day on the calendar. It is the day we have chosen to remember that Jesus Himself bore our sins on that cross that through His stripes we can be healed from our sins.

We can pay lip service to the cross. We can sing about the cross. We can blog about the cross. All of that is great, but the true way to show the value of the cross is that we live for righteousness every day.

Our righteous living should be our response to the cross. His death was all that could make us righteous. Let’s live in that righteousness instead of in the flesh.

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