Bible Verse of the Day Friday June 3rd , 2022

 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”

Christ Jesus is our righteousness, godliness, and deliverance.

Our righteousness simply means that we can bow down at the throne of God and be considered free of any guilt or sin. This does not mean that we are not sinners in God’s sight, what it means is that Jesus is standing in for us. The sinfulness in us is covered over by the love and grace of Christ Jesus. So, when God sees us, He see Christ Jesus in us. Because of the loving sacrifice that Jesus made on the Cross of Calvary, in God’s eyes we are forgiven of our sins, past present and future. This is what we sing about constantly, Amazing Grace.

Our source of salvation comes from no other location, only from God and Him alone. Saved believers hold the same status quo as Jesus in the eyes of God. When we place our faith and trust in Christ Jesus for our salvation, we stand before God in the perfectness of Christ. Our salvation is based on who Jesus is and what he did, and in no way on our weak works. Christ Jesus is our wisdom before God, we cannot begin to fathom God’s knowledge and wisdom. Consequently, we must accept God’s rational decisions from His Holy Word, the Bible. This is the reason that we glory in God through Christ Jesus, rather than ourselves. Jesus shows us, through His perfection, the great wisdom of God. This eternal wisdom is often in contradiction with the feeble wisdom of humanity.

This verse speaks of our redemption, to redeem something means to buy back something that was yours to begin with. Dating back to the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were both created by God in a perfect form, in essence they were sinless. When they committed the first sin, they lost their close walk with God because sin have come into their lives. The problem was that Humanity did not have anything that God needed, so we could not buy back our sinless lives. So, God said He would send a savior, a redeemer of lost souls to regain our ability to stand before God (Genesis 3:15). When Jesus came into the world that is exactly what He did on the Cross of Calvary, He redeemed our lost righteousness and paid the penalty for our sin that we should have paid for. There is only one word that could explain a sacrifice of that magnitude, love.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.