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God is righteous. If God is righteous, there is hope in God.
\n142 Your righteousness is everlasting
\nand your law is true.
\nSince God is right, God\u2019s righteousness is \u201ceverlasting\u201d (l\u2019olam<\/em>). If God\u2019s righteousness \u2014 his utter faithfulness to his own character of love \u2014 is everlasting, then his law is true.
\nAnd if true about an everlastingly righteous God, then there is hope in listening to and observing that righteousness made manifest in the Torah of God.
\nInherent to a Christian approach to Scripture is not only a listening and learning mentality, but a hopeful one as well: the Christian listens and learns, and then hopes in the God who makes himself manifest and his ways known in these very words. If God\u2019s righteousness is everlasting and God\u2019s laws \u2014 coming as they do from God \u2014 are right, then living in light of them is a life of hope.
\nSomedays we don\u2019t feel like listening to them; somedays we don\u2019t want to learn; somedays we don\u2019t want to observe. But the challenge is to listen, learn, and hope anyway. Why? Because of our hope in God \u2014 that these words will guide us when the days seem dreary and the path unclear.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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