January 17, 2023: Made Right With God By The Blood!

“And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.” (Romans 5:9, NLT)

Who would have ever thought it possible that we could be made righteous? Yet, God, in His infinite wisdom, before the foundation of the earth was set in place, had a plan! That plan was to take sinful, fallen, broken people and make them righteous before Him. God had a plan before creation began to make people righteous, like Himself!

Jesus carried out that plan.

You cannot receive communion without thinking about the blood of Jesus. May it become your reality that when you think about the blood, you simultaneously remember you are righteous, not because of what you have done but because of what He has done for you. Through the blood of Jesus, you have been made righteous! You can say, like Paul, “I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus!”

Because you are now, by faith, the righteousness of God, you will not have to experience God’s wrath, now or in the future! Hear the words of The Passion Translation: “And there is still much more to say of his unfailing love for us!  For through the blood of Jesus, we have heard the powerful declaration, “You are now righteous in my sight.” And because of the sacrifice of Jesus, you will never experience the wrath of God.” (Romans 5:9, TPT)