HOLDING TO HIS WAY

“For the ways of the Lord are right,

And the just shall walk in them:

But the transgressors shall fall therein.”

Hosea 14:9

“The righteous also shall hold on His way.” – Job 17:9

Righteous – is to be just, or upright. To live and manifest that which was first imputed to us by faith, worked into us by process, and finalized into our actual state of being.

The threefold dimension of righteousness is briefly comprehended with these verses. Romans 4:3, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness” – imputed to his account because of his faith. This was then transferred into experience by the processings of God as revelation was imparted and worked out, so “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, the just shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17). Revelation, in- worked through daily living, develops His righteousness in us, and finally it simply becomes our state of being, so that “If you know that He is righteous, you know that every one that does righteousness is born of God” (1 John 2:29). Doing that is the result of His life BECOMING in us.

It rightly follows then, that, becoming righteousness we shall hold onto His way, walk in His way, for His is the right way. This is more than a tentative hold, lightly grasping, and ready to release your grip at the first sign of difficulty and pressure. Rather, this is that absolute committal to His way, to the degree that “though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” (Job 13:15). When all the trials and trouble began to pile up against him, blow after blow, Job’s wife asked, “Do you still retain (hold on) your integrity?” (Job 2:9). But Job was not about to let it go, and answered her, “What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.”

Whatever his understanding, he certainly held to the sovereignty of God to control the interplay of good and bad, and he held fast to HIS way. “My feet have held His steps, His way have I kept, and not declined” (Job 23:11).

From “Daily Overcoming”