The Vista of Righteousness

Call To Prayer

Title: The Vista of Righteousness

By: Wale Lasisi

Date: 01.12.2022

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. [15] I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. [16] I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. (Job 29:14-16 KJV)

There are so many vistas and heart postures that can be employed in doing good or things in general. There is the vista of pity, the vista of self-gratification, the vista of compulsion or pressure, the vista of eye service or hypocrisy, the vista of reward or payback, and so on and so forth.

Taking a look at Job who dedicated his life to the ministry of helps and the ministry of mercy, the guiding light to doing the things he did was righteousness. His emphasis on the less privileged like the blind, the lame, the poor, the fatherless, and the widow was not because of pity but because he could discern the heart of God who sees it as a righteous thing to do.
Knowing that God needs a man on earth, he, therefore, submitted himself on the altar of sacrifice to be God’s hands and feet in fighting the cause of the afflicted. He became a trusted treasurer of God’s bank on earth attending to the needy and he became a lawyer defending the fatherless free of charge. In fact, he was God’s man for the implementation of God’s purposes upon the earth.

When you put on righteousness and allow it to clothe you, you will become full of God and less of self. You will not take what is not yours or manipulate anyone for gain. Job knew that God’s blessing over him was not to live large but to be an extension of God’s hand to the people in need.

When you begin to view situations and circumstances around you from the vista of righteousness, God will begin to take delight in what you do and will anoint you with more grace (Ps 45:7).

This was the perception Joseph had as he journeyed in the land of slavery and God never left him because He saw the eyes of righteousness with which Joseph saw situations and matters around him. Joseph will not compromise for anything as long as it is righteous in the sight of God and with this, he became an extension of God’s reign of righteousness on earth in the land of Egypt.

There are things that God wants to achieve on earth but can only be done in partnership with men and women who are clothed in righteousness. The big question is: Are you the one or should we wait for another?

Prayer point:
Let us thank God for the new month. Let us ask Him to clothe us with righteousness and release grace for divine partnership upon the earth over the body of Christ.

God bless you.