"விதைகளின் உள்ளே" 🌳
“Within the Seeds” 🌳
📖 AATHAVAN
Bible Meditation – No. 1859
🔆 Wednesday,
March 11, 2026
“Put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” — Ephesians 4:24
We often hear many people speaking about righteousness and justice. When conflicts arise, someone may angrily ask another person, “Do you think what you are doing is right?” The other person may reply, “I am acting justly.” In this way, both individuals claim that they are standing for justice. If that is the case, what truly is righteousness? Whose judgment is correct?
At times, people even justify the mistakes of those they like. Recently, while I was drinking tea at a tea stall, I overheard two people having a conversation. One of them supported a certain actor who had abandoned his wife and was closely involved with another actress. He argued in defense of the actor, “What is wrong with that? Doesn’t he have the right to live with the person he likes?” The other person then asked him, “If your own son-in-law pushed aside your daughter and tried to marry another woman, would you still say the same thing?” Hearing this, the first man had no answer and remained silent.
Dear friends, this is how human standards of righteousness often change from person to person. We also see cases where a man declared guilty by one judge is later acquitted by another judge upon appeal. Therefore, human righteousness cannot stand before God. The Bible declares:
“For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our wrongdoings, like the wind, take us away.” — Isaiah 64:6
Today’s meditation verse speaks about true righteousness and holiness. God alone is perfectly righteous and holy.
“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all time, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.” — 1 Peter 3:18
The One who died and rose again—the Righteous One who suffered for the unrighteous—alone has the power to make us truly righteous.
Today’s meditation verse urges us to “put on the new self, created in the likeness of God.” Only when Christ, who died and rose again for our sins, comes into our lives can we truly say that we have put on Christ. When we put on Christ, we are transformed to live in true righteousness and holiness.
When we live righteously, it becomes evident that we are born of Him.
“If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness also has been born of Him.” — 1 John 2:29
Therefore, let us put on Christ Jesus in our lives and live in true righteousness and holiness. As the Apostle Paul teaches, let us put on the new self, created in the likeness of God.
Without righteousness and holiness, no one can truly know God or come to Him.
God’s Message: Bro. M. Geo Prakash
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