embrace the light

Monday December 3^rd, Jeremiah 33:  16 In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety. This is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.'  It is not military might that brings hope or righteousness.  It is not radical law hugging that brings righteousness.  It is not puritanical and invasive laws to control women, minorities and voting that brings about righteousness.  It is not seemingly simple common sense or pithy statements that bring righteousness.  It is the Lord that brings us hope and righteousness.  It is through our relationship with the Lord and the calling to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind and our neighbor as ourselves that we experience righteousness.  It is the way that righteousness from God manifests itself in how we live together as “we” not “me alone” that we experience this righteousness in the body of Christ.  It is not our doing that brings it about, it is in our receiving what has already been done for us.  In the midst of the darkness in your life, embrace the light that comes from God and know you are never alone.