Righteousness

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Lovingkindness and truth go before Your face. Psalms 89:14  Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34  

Righteousness is one of the divine attributes of God. The foundation of God's throne is righteousness. As the righteous One who redeemed us in His righteousness, I, as a redeemed one also need to live out the righteousness of God in my living.

 

For all the official works, I have been doing my best to make all things righteous, legal and proper. Especially, in my official function, I must ensure that whatever decision I make, is according to the righteousness fitting to a believer. Therefore, whenever I buy computers for official purposes, I make sure that all legal software was purchased along with it. Though I have to pay much more, still my conscience tells me to do so. 

There is some very expensive software that can be gotten at a very cheap price from a local vendor. The trend in India is, many simply got a "cracked" version installed in their systems. I do confess that I did this in the past. But since the Lord touched me in this matter, I decided not to entertain any easy-cheap-improper software. 

Now all the computers that have been purchased under my responsibility are all conforming to the righteousness deemed of a believer. Though I needed to shell out a higher price for doing this, still it is worth doing it, for conscience's sake at least. For the Bible translation service, we purchased very expensive software, legal licenses for all translators. Similarly for the typesetting and other editing software. Recently I was reminded of one particular software which is very very expensive. I used the trial version to finish designing Calendar 2020. Then I needed the software for other official works. The value of this software is similar to buying one new two-wheeler vehicle. This software could have been gotten only as cheap as rupees five hundred only, but I have to spend more than a hundred times to buy the legal license. Because of the high price I did struggle for quite some time. But the more I considered it, the more I became clear that I needed to pay the price to make this right. Therefore, I got the license and installed it in my system, with much peace.

In this way, so far, Windows 10, MS Office, BibleWorks, InDesign, CorelDraw etc., were all purchased at a high price. This is one lesson in the matter of righteousness. I am glad, the Lord has been gracing me to be able to maintain the decorum and sanctity of the official responsibility He has mercifully assigned me to.

May the righteousness of Christ be my righteosuness. I have no righteousness of my own. I simply take Christ as my righteousness.