- Righteousness and Truth
Psalm 119:142, 160
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Thy law is the truth.
Thy word is true from the beginning:
And every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever.
There is a never-ending foreverness to righteousness. For Christ’s sake, by God’s Grace, God justifies us and declares us righteous; we have God’s righteousness; and the promise is that this righteousness is everlasting and endures forever. It goes with us as ours directly through death and resurrection into the next life. This is the promise that we can count on. Our future could not be more secure.
All of God’s promises and blessings are guaranteed to us with certainty forever because the Word is eternally true; the promises we believe are founded on eternal truth. From the beginning and even before the beginning, and to the end and even after the end, God’s Word is true. All lies and falsehoods have very short lives, have no lasting effect, and will pass away (along with heaven and earth), but the Word, which is Truth, will never pass away, lives forever, and has great effect. We can count on the Truth of God, even when lies presently overwhelm, we can count on decisions made according to Truth, and can count on never forever being disappointed. That’s a promise.