Isaiah 6:1 "In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. 2 Above it stood the seraphims. 3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"....
This heartfelt, and graphic confession of Isaiah occurred only after he had been brought into close contact with God's perfect righteousness, and this will be the experience of all those who experience a deep relationship with Christ. The closer we get to Jesus, the more our imperfections are seen for what they are, which develops in us a hunger and thirsting after His righteousness. After Daniel saw Christ in vision, he confessed that his "Comeliness was turned into corruption". After Job had a revelation of The infinite one he stated " I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes”.
And after Paul was caught up to the third heaven in vision he saw himself as “less than the least of all saints”. But in our day we observe a stoical form of self-righteousness which has spread across the land like a dark cloud, by which some have claimed to have never done anything wrong, while others claim to need no repentance. Our Bible study for this afternoon is entitled "The Man In The Mirror", in which we will be brought into close contact with the perfection of Christ, and we hope that our response will be similar to that of Paul, Daniel, Job, and Isaiah.
In the meantime, here's a passage for consideration, as we ponder our relationship with Christ, and our own "righteousness": Philippians 3:9 "And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: 10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection"... Think about it! God bless!