“THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS!”

 Jeremiah 23:5-6                    (ESV)

“[5] “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous BRANCH, and HE shall reign as KING and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. [6] In HIS days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which HE will be called: ‘“THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS”.’

Why does humanity strive to live lives that are HOLY when we DON’T have the capability nor capacity to BE HOLY???  Many years prior to Jeremiah (630 and 580 B.C.) being written, GOD instructed HIS CHILDREN in Leviticus 11:44-45 (1440 B.C.) “FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and BE HOLY, for I AM HOLY. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground. FOR I AM THE LORD WHO am the LORD who brought you up out of the land of Egypt to be your GOD. You shall therefore BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”

Roughly over 1,000+ years passed between Leviticus being written and Jeremiah being written, yet no one could discover how to BE HOLY?  In our humanness, we STILL can’t figure out how to BE HOLY!?!  There are over 8 BILLION people alive today, and probably more than that have pre deceased us, and NO ONE has ever lived HOLY.…….with the exception of JESUS CHRIST!!!

HE IS THE ANSWER!  JESUS CHRIST lived a sinless life and died a sacrificial death, all so that all of CREATION could have the opportunity to BE HOLY!!  “THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” is more than a catchy phrase that is used from the BIBLE to describe what we should already know?  “THE LORD IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” was/is the ONLY WAY that I have the possibility of KNOWING HIM, and of spending ETERNITY with HIM!!!