Job 27:6

"My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live."

Job is declaring his own ways before his friends, and heaven and hell. He has declared what his life is and what he will continue for it to be. What a committment he makes here! Oh, that there was such a heart in the church today to be resolved to keep the Lord's ways in our own lives. My righteousness I hold fast - it is not the sin of self-righteousness that he is talking about here; He has just declared in the previous verse of his intergrity. Job has walked rightly in the sight of God. This truth is declared in the first of the book, 'he was perfect'. And a man that is perfect in the sight of the Lord always walks with the Lord. Yet, do we hear this preached today, 'Walk with the Lord for there is no other way to be happy in Jesus but to trust and obey'. Here is a person that is righteous that trust and obey's the Lord. And a true child of God is robed in the righteousness of Christ, not of self works. A true child of God knows that in his own flesh and works there is only self-righteousness. And when Job declares, 'My righteousness', he is not referring to his own merits, but that which God has done in him and through him. For Job knew that God breathed these holy desires within him. Never think that your love for the Lord, your desire to seek Him came from your own self. Just holy desires cannot come from such sinful creatures, it must be of God. Just as true, that righteousness can only come from One Who is righteous, Christ. Now knowing that when we as Chrisitans are righteous in Him, then labor to hold fast to it. Know the fact that any sin, dishonors His righteousness. Take heed to the things that you say, do, think, and practice. Are they producing Christ righteousness or hindering it? Hold fast to the truths of His Great Names sake. and will not let it go - word study, to go; His mind and heart is determined that have received, he will not let it go. Are you willing to not let it go? There are many who having begun with a good work in them, gave up and let go and walked no more among His people. 'They went out from us, for they were not of us'. They let go, a true child of God is obstinate on this fact, "I cannot let it go, for it is right and from Him". And they will struggle, pray, weep, go through trials and tribulations, but they will not let go. Is your resolve the same? Wishy-washy Christianity cannot say that. They come and go, in and out, unfaithful and then faithful, it is like they cannot make up their minds. To be steadfast, perservering is to resolved and will not let it go. My heart shall not reproach me so long as I live - 'if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart'; Job knew that his own heart would tell the truth. He was so assured in his personal walk with God that he knew good from evil, right from wrong. that cannot be said of many people today. We are in a generation that calls evil, good and good, evil. They do not know the ways of God; holiness is absent. But a Christian has the Spirit of God abiding in them and He will not let them alone, if they are in sin. Convicting, pricking, quickening to bring them to the Lord tried and true. It is in the heart that convicdtion is settled; the mind can reason it, but the heart is the will of our emotions and decisions. And if men have a wicked heart then they will follow the wickedness of it and do wickedly. But as Job's heart, a true child of God is moved by the Holy Spirit to be follow rightly. And when they stay true to their heart, their is no reproach, no backsliding, no sin. they walk with God and God walks with them. They love Him, and He loves them. The saints that it is said of them, "they were perfect in the sight of God", has found this truth and the heart is wholly His. and so today, check your heart, is there any conviction? is there any reproach? then know the Spirit is pricking so that you might put the sin away and follow perfectly. Obey and keep His ways and you will find your heart at peace. Continue in sin, and you find sorrow and unrest all your days. Chose you this day Whom you will serve.