Read this last week. It just might shake up what you consider to be righteousness.
“The righteousness of the disciples can never be a personal achievement; it is always a gift, which they received when they were called to follow him. In fact their righteousness consists precisely in following him, and in the beatitudes the reward of the kingdom of heaven has been promised to it. It is a righteousness under the cross, it belongs only to the poor, the tempted, the hungry, the meek, the peacemakers, the persecuted—who endure their lot for the sake of Jesus; it is the visible righteousness of those who for the sake of Jesus are the light of the world and the city set on the hill” -Bonhoeffer (125).
I love the complicated relationship between calling and visible righteouness as he presents it here.
The tension is incredibly beautiful.
