Good Gift- The Right of Righteousness

Righteousness -

Our God is a great Father. He has provided us access to His heart through believing, love and hope. We know that all scripture is inspired by God and helps us by providing doctrine, reproof and correction as embodied in the seven church epistles specifically addressed to us. The three doctrinal letters are Romans, Ephesians and Thessalonians. Roman's theme centers around the justness of God and our  access to righteousness by believing. Ephesians is the expression of God's love in this age of grace.  Thessalonians is about the hope and our eternal future that is now available through Jesus Christ.

Righteousness is our God-given justification, whereby we can enter the throne room of God without a sense of sin, guilt or condemnation. We have standing because of the risen Christ.  'We can come boldly to the throne of grace' for whatever we need and God will answer.

Luke 11:13  If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

Absolutely nothing stands in our way of our access to Him. We don't have to go through anybody else. God deals with each of us as we believe. Sin-consciousness can be a roadblock to this direct access. It has to be left at the door.  Realizing what Jesus Christ did for us in justifying us is the key. Just look at every chapter in Romans.
(For uses of Righteousness in the book of Romans, see Digging Deeper)