Identify Ourselves With Him!

Our Lord Jesus Christ chose to identify Himself with us the moment He said, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He then gave up His dwelling in the heavenly place and chose to be conceived and be born as a Man. He lived a life without sinning and was made sin and died for the whole world on the Cross.

2 Corinthians 5:21 - For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

He identified Himself with us not by living a sinful life like us but lived a perfect life without sin and yet was made sin to die for us on the Cross.

In any other religion, we are to produce our own righteousness so as to be righteous; but in Christianity, we have to wake up from our sleep and understand that righteousness is not right behavior but a person — Jesus. Our heavenly Father wants us to seek His righteousness and not our own righteousness. Whenever we seek our own righteousness, we will end up feeling miserable because we can never produce righteousness by our works, no matter how hard we try. If we still see righteousness as a doctrine or a subject, the truth of the matter is, we are still not convinced that sin is a settled issue, His Finished Work on the Cross is not so complete and as a result, we will try to use our effort to achieve righteousness.

It is through the revelation of His grace and the establishment of our faith in His grace that brings forth the understanding of the status of our sin. From the understanding of our sin as a settled issue, we will understand that righteousness is no more a work we perform but a Person we look to. The way we seek His righteousness is not by trying to do what He is doing but, by identifying ourselves with Him in faith through our confession of who we are in Christ.

He, who is full of the righteousness of God, was made sinful with our sin and died on the Cross so that we can have His righteousness. We are made in the image of God, so speak forth the identity that you have in Christ and stop performing our righteousness.