Founded on Righteousness

[Daily Devotional]

Founded on Righteousness 

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Ps. 97: 2, N. E.
B. 

In all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of
righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-- by demonstrating that
its sure result is misery and death. The unconditional pardon of sin never
has been, and never will be. Such pardon would show the abandonment of the
principles of righteousness, which are the very foundation of the government
of God. It would fill the unfallen universe with consternation. God has
faithfully pointed out the results of sin, and if these warnings were not
true, how could we be sure that His promises would be fulfilled? That so-
called benevolence which would set aside justice, is not benevolence, but
weakness. 

God is the life- giver. From the beginning, all His laws were ordained to
life. But sin broke in upon the order that God had established, and discord
followed. So long as sin exists, suffering and death are inevitable. It is
only because the Redeemer has borne the curse of sin in our behalf, that man
can hope to escape, in his own person, its dire results. 

We are to accept of Christ as our personal Saviour, and He imputes unto us
the righteousness of God in Christ. . . . "Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins" (1 John 4: 10). 

In the love of God has been opened the most marvelous vein of precious
truth, and the treasures of the grace of Christ are laid open before the
church and the world.... What love is this, what marvelous, unfathomable
love that would lead Christ to die for us while we were yet sinners. What a
loss it is to the soul who understands the strong claims of the law, and who
yet fails to understand the grace of Christ which doth much more abound. . .
. Look at the cross of Calvary. It is a standing pledge of the boundless
love, the measureless mercy of the heavenly Father. 

There is a God in Israel, with whom is deliverance for all that are
oppressed. Righteousness is the habitation of His throne. 

>From God's Amazing Grace - Page 72