Imputed!

Romans 4: 6  (NKJV)

….just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works:

I’ve always wondered what the word “imputes” mean, so I looked it up.

It’s means to be… “credited” or to be… “put on our account”

I remember when my Mom would have one of us kids go to the local corner grocery store—and she sent money with us—the grocer would credit that amount to Mom’s account.

Did you know that’s what God does, through His Son, Jesus Christ?

He imputes or credits righteousness unto us.

At the moment a person believes upon the Lordship of the Lord Jesus Christ, God makes us righteous.

Is it possible to lose that righteousness? That’s been debated for many a year.

Maybe it’s when Jesus isn’t Lord of our lives anymore? Maybe something or someone else has taken His rightful place.

A.W. Tozier once said…. “Either Jesus is Lord of all—or He’s not Lord at all!”

A little boy, after giving his heart to Jesus during a Sunday school class, said afterward…. “It feels like Jesus is living in my house—and me in His!”

No Bible scholar in the world, could explain it any better.

Is Jesus living in your house—and are you living in His?

That’s what righteousness is, at least through the heart of a little boy.

Maybe Jesus was right, when He said, we must become like little children.

He did not say we should act like them, though…