Wisdom For The Day Devotional 11 September 2025 By Bishop Mike Okonkwo – Your Righteous Nature Is Constant
TOPIC: Your Righteous Nature Is Constant (TREM Devotional 11 September 2025)
“He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” – 2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV)
MESSAGE:
Beloved, it is an insult to God and to the finished work of Christ for a believer to call himself a sinner. I didn’t say you won’t ever do wrong, but your mistakes do not redefine your identity. If a goat falls into the mud, does it become a pig? Certainly not! It remains a goat. In the same way, when you stumble in your walk with God, you don’t lose your righteousness. Yet for years, many believers have lived as though every mistake strips them of their right standing with God. That is a lie the devil delights in. If that were true, then the death of Christ would have been in vain!
Jesus accomplished a perfect work. The real problem is not sin, but wrong believing. Until you believe right, you cannot live right. Under the old covenant, it was “do good, get good; do bad, get bad.” But under the new covenant, you have been permanently delivered from the kingdom of darkness and translated into the kingdom of His dear Son. You are not less of a Christian because you fell short. You are still a child of God, and if you were to leave this earth today, heaven would still be your home.
So stop being sin-conscious; become righteousness-conscious. The Bible says, “Awake to righteousness, and sin not” (1 Corinthians 15:34). When you awaken to the reality of your right standing with God, you will see that righteousness is a gift, not a reward for doing right. God does not do you good because you are perfect, He does you good because He is good. That’s the covenant reality! Grace is unmerited, undeserved, and unearned.
Live with this consciousness: your righteousness in Christ is constant, unshakable, and eternal.
FURTHER READING
Romans 1:17, Romans 3:22
Wisdom For The Day Devotional was written by Dr. Mike Okonkwo; Is the Presiding Bishop of The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM); a versatile man of God with over 30 years of dedicated service unto the Lord.
