How does God’s word instruct us in righteousness? We have to remember what we have been saved from. Isaiah 64:6 says, “But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf.” Speaking of leaves. I just pulled off dead brown leaves from my geraniums.

Isaiah 54:17 says, “…and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 says, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 

Isaiah 32:17 clearly states what it looks like when we are walking in His gift of righteousness. It says, “The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”

Our trials are divinely orchestrated as tools to mold and shape us in conformity to His image. Romans 8:29. Hebrews 12:11 says, “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”