| October 25 Fruit of
the Light - Righteousness Fruit of
the light are much like fruit of the Spirit.
The source of all good things is God. The
fruit of the light can be thought of as the
outcome of walking in the light with God.
Righteousness is something that we cannot
achieve but yet we still strive for it.
The point of the law of Moses was to cause us to
realize that we were incapable of being
righteous and we needed a savior to forgive our
sins. But this doesn't mean that we throw up
our hands in despair because righteousness is an
impossibility. Instead we set it as the
mark that we aim for and recognize that we won't
always hit that mark. God has given us
permanent righteousness in His eyes at the
moment of our salvation. There is nothing
we can do to earn this and nothing that can
repay the debt we owe. But we still
continue to sin in spite of all of this. This
is why we need to daily ask forgiveness for our
sins as well. The sins that we commit when
we fail to be righteous does not affect our
salvation. But it does affect our
relationship with God. Because we want a
right relationship with God, we aim for
righteousness. When we don't achieve it,
we ask for forgiveness. |
