It is commonly believed among Christians that the Lord Jesus is our righteousness. By this we mean we have no righteousness of our own and so God has assigned to us the righteousness of Christ, the righteousness of the One who kept the Law of Moses perfectly.

Let us look more deeply into the expression The Lord Our Righteousness. Our minds go back to an expression found in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Isaiah, the passage that was chanted during the celebration of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles: "Behold God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation."

As we press forward past the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Passover and begin to enter the feast of Tabernacles we discover we have been playing volleyball with God. "You do this and I will do that. You do that and I will do this."

Now we are going over to the same side of the net.

God no longer is saving us, He Himself has become our salvation.

We no longer are attempting to get God to do something, we are trusting Him and no longer are afraid.

The Lord Himself has become our strength. The Lord Himself has become our song. The Lord Himself has become our salvation.

THE LORD HIMSELF HAS BECOME OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

This does not mean we no longer pray or seek the Lord or cease asking for our desires. We have not arrived as yet in the perfect rest of God where His will and our will have become one. And we never will arrive there unless we keep on praying, seeking, asking, and, with the Lord's help, striving to keep all of His commandments.

We are pressing toward the mark. Our desire is that Christ Himself live in us, for this is the fulfillment of the new covenant and the rest of God.

Many of us have been as far as the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Passover. This is to say, we have received the blood atonement and have been born again of the Spirit of God.

Others of us have come to the feast of Pentecost. We are entering life lived in the Spirit of God. It is God's will for all people that they live in the Spirit of God.

Now we are being called to the third feast, the feast of Tabernacles. As we keep God's commandments the Father and the Son come to us and make Their abode with us. Do you feel that calling today? It is the third great work of grace. Ask Jesus into your heart in a greater way than you have known.

When the Lord Himself becomes our righteousness then the light of the moral Nature of Jesus will be revealed in us. People will see our good works and glorify God.

Then it will be true that we ourselves will be termed "The Lord our righteousness."

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The LORD our righteousness. (Jeremiah 33:16)

Can you think of anything more wonderful than that?