This week an intriguing concept popped out of my devotions.  Just as Christ died on behalf of me personally, He lived each day in righteousness on my behalf. 

I am familiar with the idea that if there had been no other person in the whole world that was guilty of sin then Christ would have still died because of my sin.  How humbling that is.

How about His life then?  He lived a life of righteousness, well, because being completely God meant that He could do no less.  But He also did it because it was the requirement for an acceptable sacrifice for my sin (for the sin of the world). 

So, in a way, Christ lived each day for me!  That makes me feel rather special.

The Solid Rock

         -Edward Mote, 1834

"My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness;

I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

When darkness veils his lovely face, I rest on his unchanging grace;

in every high and stormy gale my anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, his covenant, his blood support me in the whelming flood;

when all around my soul gives way he then is all my hope and stay.

When he shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in him be found,

dressed in his righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.

On Christ the solid Rock I stand; all other ground is sinking sand;

all other ground is sinking sand."