Look at the phenomenon of the right-angle and its importance to humans in engineering and other practices, generalising it to see how righteousness is important in human life. We need tools to check how right things are. Our minds learn to receive what is true and prefer it over what is false. Teach your children right, and their lives are more likely to be the best lives they can live. They need what can be called righteousness. Without it they might reject what you have taught them, shown them, and told them, even when it is right and true. Teach them falsely and the right mind might reject it, and prefer truth when it finds it. The measure of a right mind, a right attitude, is how it responds to being told truth, taught truthfully, and shown truthful and right ways. The ultimate rightness of mind is a mind which accepts the most righteous truth in full belief. So to hear what the perfect Most High God says in truth, and to believe it, this is the best righteousness of all. As the apostle Paul wrote, “Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness”. But when confronted with a truly noble and righteous person like Jesus Christ, we should accept this rightness of his reputation and his name as like a tool for measuring and knowing what is right and true, and learning to live accordingly. The power of this is such a benefit to living rightly that to deny it is to harm our prospects and bring about our own demise. The Holy Spirit says that the trees produce their buds and leaves by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have a human tendency which is rife today, which is to help our own persistence of wrong behaviour by denying what is right and true. We should not use this strategy with the name of Jesus Christ. We need to learn from Nature that this name underpins the very fabric of order and life. We should align with Nature by accepting the power that this name gives us to go on living without the demise of ultimate death. For this we need to believe in this name, in the rightness of Jesus Christ and what he stands for, and let it save us.
(See an AI review of this here https://chatgpt.com/share/6aa2658b-8b80-83eb-9a4a-860fb351f538 )
