April 26
The Continual Burnt Offering" T his is His name by which He will be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS."
This is one of the great covenant names of God: “Jehovah Tsidkenu.” It tells us that God has a righteousness for those who can pretend to none of their own. Christ is made wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption to all who believe in Him. In order that this might be, He, the sinless One, was made “sin for usø5that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). He is Himself the righteousness in which every redeemed one stands perfect and complete before God. Paul exclaims with rapture that it was his glory to “be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but the righteousness which is from God by faith” (Philippians 3:9 ).
Jehovah Tsidkenu, my treasure and boast,
Jehovah Tsidkenu, I ne’er can be lost,
By Thee I shall conquer through flood or by field,
My cable, my anchor, my breast-plate and shield.
—R. M. McCheyne