“This is His name whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS” — Jer. 23:6.
THIS is one of the great covenant names of God: “Jehovah Tsidkenu.” It tells us that God has a righteousness for those who can pretend to none of their own, Christ Himself is made unto all who believe in Him, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption. In order that this might be, He the sinless One, was “made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21): He is Himself the righteousness in which every redeemed one stands perfect and complete before God. Paul exclaims with rapture that it was his glory “to be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness which is by the law, but the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Phil. 3:9).
“Jehovah Tsidkenu, my treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu, I ne’er can he lost,
By Thee I shall conquer through flood or by field,
My cable, my anchor, my breast-plate and shield.”
―R. M. McCheyne.