Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale Daily DevotionalSample

Righteousness Brace yourself before your read any further. August 2009. After helping local communities upgrade his water systems, a Red Cross worker is abducted in Sudan's Darfur region September 2009. A Californian man is charged with kidnapping a young girl and holding her captive for 18 years. October 2009. A man is arrested on the charge of driving his Jeep into his 20-year-old daughter for being too "Westernized." She subsequently dies as a result of her injuries. November 2009. A registered sex offender is in custody after eleven bodies are recovered from his home in a Cleveland neighborhood. We read these headlines, and it triggers something deep inside of us. There's a visceral reaction that rises in protest. "No! This should not happen, this should not be. This is not right!" We all long for what's right. We long for right-ness, or righteousness. When we see some injustice take place, we feel slighted, undone, and dissatisfied. We sense an imbalance, and we want to set it straight. We don't know how tomorrow's headlines will read. But we do know this: God is righteous. There is nothing in Him that's wrong, and it's His righteousness that will prevail at the end of the age. No atrocity that has ever been committed will go unpunished or unsettled. He brings His justice to light and will never fail to right every wrong. As heinous and horrific as things are here on earth, there is a Judge in heaven, a righteous Judge, who presides over all, and His righteousness will have the last word. The LORD is righteous in all His ways...(Psalms 145:17 NKJV) We don't know how tomorrow's headlines will read. But we do know this: God is righteous. What does this passage reveal to me about God? What does this passage reveal to me about myself? Based on this, what changes do I need to make? What is my prayer for today?