Where righteousness dwells

Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. – 2 Peter 3.13

One day all this mess is going to be over. In this life we face troubles and problems and suffering and opposition and betrayal and lusts and desires and the flesh and a wicked world and selfishness and sickness and pain and on and on and on. 

There is one root cause for all of these things. Our world lacks righteousness. There is no one righteous – no, not one. 

And that is why this world and all of its inhabitants is so, so broken. 

Only Christ brings hope for individual righteousness, but the world is going to continue in unrighteousness and it is going to get worse and worse until Christ comes back. 

We are not going to fix this unrighteous world. 

But we can show folks the way of righteousness in Christ alone. Nations are not made righteous, people are. And that righteousness is never going to make us popular. 

That’s why we rest in Christ’s promises and look forward with an assured hope to the new heavens and the new earth because that is where real righteousness dwells. 

Oh what a day that will be and what a motivation to introduce others to Christ so they too can look forward to the only place that righteousness dwells.