So I was back in our laundry room, needle and thread in hand(sewing a button back on my jacket,lol), when all of a sudden, I heard my brother begin reading a paper he wrote for school aloud to my mom. I couldn’t help but overhear..(is that eavesdropping..? cause he was speaking sorta loud, lol) He astonishes me every time I hear more about what God is teaching him. As I listened, I began to see that my little brother had received some insight and wisdom that I had not fully comprehended yet..but actually found myself praying to Jesus recently that he would help me understand more deeply, biblically what he means when he talks about righteousness.

Little did I know, my little bro would be vessel God used in my life to help turn this page. Watch out, God will and can use anyone, and anything..to teach you what He wants you to know. He doesn’t need things to be perfect, old enough, straight enough.

Check out what he wrote:

In this life that we live, we all are in some way seeking
righteousness. Some people take the path of finding righteousness by
exposing unrighteousness in others and holding tight to even the
smallest ounce of righteousness they have in themselves. And when that
ounce is gone, they are left with just blaming others for their
wrongs, never seeing inside themselves. They go on a long and
loathsome journey of finding righteousness until one day they realize
they never will, because they themselves are unrighteous…
On the other hand we have those who have been down the previous path
and begin to take another way. This is the way which focuses on
finding the righteousness in others, however small that may be. They
find those hurting and comfort them with words of divinity and
salvation, saying little more than a prayer and you will be in heaven.
They take these people and put them on a path of confusion where
boundaries are borderless and grace will cover you if you sin. They
are so worried about keeping the faith in these people, that they make
true faith seem easy. They allow the people to stay in their frivolity
as long as they still have at least some righteousness in them, such
as, going to church, having a bible by their bed, or being a friend to
the weak. As long as some righteousness exists, faith abounds.
Yet neither of these two are on the path of righteousness. Both have
led the religious person away from the church either saying Christians
are judgemental or Christians are the same as everyone else. Where is
that church God says is his holy temple? Is it hidden within
persecution? Is it within the cracks of immorality? Where do we find
righteousness?
Righteousness is not something any human being posesses. We should
neither look for it in others or ourselves, because we will never find
it. What appears to be righteousness in these fleshly bodies is just
a mere pot, ready to be broken, releasing all that it held. And then
we wonder if God is real because he let our righteousness excape. The
only thing that posesses righteousness in the world is God. And
believers and non believers are both a pitiful example of both, so
where are you looking? Who are you looking for?
A third path that we take is that of after we have found
righteousness. Once we have found righteousness we are filled with an
indescribable amount of wisdom and truth, yet we are reluctant to
reveal those truths. We hold our truth inside and soon develop a
double character inside ourselves, one that knows righteousness, and

one that expels anger on all those unrighteous. We become discouraged

with the fact that there are so many around us who are unrighteous yet
we refuse to do anything about it, because we do not know how to
express this righteousness even if we wanted to. Read your word. Are
you not pitting off a work God is trying to do in you? Let your
actions speak louder than your words. We do not need big speeches,
great stories or extravagant facts. We need Jesus. We need our savior.
As human God has made us in the image of him so when we are ready we
can be a reflection of him! All we need to do is to live like Christ.
To pick up our cross daily and love. Not through scorning and
persecuting or encouraging in immorality, but in actions and in truth.
That others may see Jesus in us and go away saying that we are
christians not because we are judgemental, not because we are like the
world, but because we are different. We are an example of love
and acceptance to anyone.
We must always remember to not search or righteousness for just
ourselves, but for everyone. Because if we become okay with just searching for ourselves, we will begin to not care about helping other. And then when we have stopped looking for just our own righteousness, the judgmental, the popular, the critic, the lost, the saved, and the weak
at heart, will bow down and pray as the church. The sinners will
praise together because together they found righteousness,
righteousness from God.

Love you little bro.. It is so exciting to see what God is unfolding in your life.

~h*

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