Righteousness has to start from the heart. Join me this week to gain an important distinction between good behavior and true righteousness.

The overall concept of righteousness is “as it should be.” No amount of good behavior can produce righteousness, because it has to originate in our heart. We experience life as it should be in our heart when we are first at peace with God. When we believe that He is for us and not against us; when we trust His love rather than expect His wrath; when we seek to know His ways we will develop a hunger and thirst to be like Him. This is righteousness produced in our heart which will bear fruit in our lives.