Suit up!

"Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. ¹⁵ For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared.¹⁶ In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. ¹⁷ Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."- Ephesians 14-17

Righteousness:

After the Bible talks about putting on your 'belt' of Truth, is says to put on the body armor, or breastplate, of Righteousness.
Now people talk about the word Righteousness but what exactly is it? Well dictionary.com says that Righteousness is the quality or the state of being just or rightful.

Now Job 29:14 says "Everything I did was honest.Righteousness covered me like a robe,and I wore justice like a turban." Here it says the Righteousness covered me like a robe or a garment.
Psalms 36:6 says "Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains,your justice like the ocean depths.You care for people and animals alike, O Lord."
Here they compare God's righteousness to the mighty mountains. What am I trying to get across?

We, in our own human ability, cannot obtain righteousness. It's that simple! Righteousness is the Lords. It is his to give. God is righteousness. Psalms 71: 9 says that God's righteousness reaches to the heavens, who can be compared to you?

For us to be righteous we have to like God. How do we do that? Well, we start with the Word. The Bible says that the Word was with God the Word was God and the Word is God. So if we start by reading out Bibles, praying, going to church, talking with some of our elders in the church, we will start to become more and more Christlike.

The book of Psalms is full of the word Righteousness, why? Well, the writer of Psalms, David, knew that God was righteous. He had had an encounter with God and he wanted the whole world to know about it. He knew that we couldn't obtain righteousness on our own, we had to have God's help to do that.

Righteousness is so important! That is why it is part of the armor of God. When we have the breastplate of Righteousness we have another tool to combat the enemy with. You wouldn't go into war without your protective gear on right? You wouldn't leave your weapon behind?

Well, Spiritual wars are going on all around all of the time! We are at war with the enemy. We can't just sit around and not combat the enemy. Pretty soon we are going to worn down, we are going to give in and give up. But when we put on our belt of Truth and we put on our breastplate of Righteousness, and the rest of the armor, we are ready to go to war. We can face the devil with Righteousness! Do you think that the devil is righteous? No, the Bible says that God is righteous; not the devil.

Today I want to challenge you to suit up! Stop living your life like nothings happening! WE ARE AT WAR!!! Whether you want to believe it or not we are not just living our lives like nothings going on. Put on your Righteousness and combat the enemy's lies!