What Does Righteousness Mean To You?

We all have preconceived ideas about what a holy person - a righteous person - should look like, what they should do, how they should act, how they should behave.

Is this your idea of holiness?

1. Isaiah was told to walk around naked and barefoot for three years (Isaiah 20:2-4, NIV)
2. Jeremiah was told to wear a yoke around his neck (Jeremiah 27:2, NIV)
3. Ezekiel was asked to cook bread using human feces for fuel, he negotiated to use cow dung instead (Ezekiel 4:12-15, NIV)
4. Daniel was put in a lion's den (Daniel 6:16, NIV)
5. Hosea was asked to marry a prostitute, Gomer (Hosea 1:2-3, NIV)
6. Jonah ran away from God and spent three days and three nights in the belly of a fish (Jonah 1, NIV)
7. Jesus Christ was crucified (John 19:16-30, NIV)
8. Muhammad was a man of war [1]

All these events tell the story of our relationship with God. God's ways are not our ways and God's understanding is not our understanding.

Our preconceived ideas about holiness, may not hold true.

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1. Military Career Of Muhammad. www.wikipedia.org. Accessed February 15, 2014.

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