The righteousness of God is the display of the nature of God in all His acts.
We, believers, are made the righteousness of God in Christ (2 Cor. 5:21).
He, CHRIST, is our righteousness before God (1 Cor. 1:30).
It is not the merits of Christ put to our account, nor is it Christ keeping the law for us.
The righteous judgment of “sin” (the root), and “sins” (the fruit) were both seen at the cross.
The blood of Christ put our sins away (1 John 1:7). The death of Christ ended our Adam history before God (2 Cor. 5:17).
Now Christ is our life (Col. 3:4).
We are “in Christ” before God (Rom. 8:1).
It is a blessed fact that Christ is the believer’s righteousness before God, so that he rejects all other righteousness as worthless. Read carefully what Paul says in Philippians 3:7-9.
The Lord give us each to enjoy it more and praise His grace together!
“He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21).
“Righteous alone in Thee,
Jesus, the Lord!
Thou wilt a refuge be,
Jesus, our Lord!
Whom, then, have we to fear,
What trouble, grief or care,
Since Thou art ever near,
Jesus, our Lord!”
H. E. Hayhoe