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One of the most popular responses you hear these days to the greeting question, "How are you doing?" is, "Doing good!"

I heard it just yesterday, and in fact I may have even said it myself. Perhaps the reasons that "doing good" is a popular response because:
1) few have the time to think about what to say to someone who isn't doing good,
2) it makes us glad for people when things are going well in their lives, and
3) the brief statement implies that the person who made it has been shown favor, particularly God-as in another statement that I loathe; "somebody up there likes me!" Don't get me wrong, I am glad for people who say to me, "doing good."

But what if God confronted us with the same greeting statement. How would we respond to Him? How many of us would be able to say before Him, "Doing good!"

The obvious answer to that question is, in light of the Scripture we just read, none of us. "There is none righteous, no, not one; The is none who understands,; there is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one."

Because of our sin and transgression of God's righteousness and holiness as demonstrated in the Law, there are none of us that can answer in the affirmative.

However, because God eternal, at least He has the time to hear from us an honest answer. Not only that, but only God has the concern and the solution for the answer we give Him. Even though His Law condemns us, His grace has provided us an opportunity to overcome this problem.

When we take Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior, confess our sinfulness before Him and place our lives under obedience and service to Him, the righteousness of Christ is applied over us and then only can we say: "Doing good!"

Its not we who are doing good, but the righteousness of Christ and His shed blood over us gives us that opportunity. Because of that, when someone now asks us how we are doing, we can respond and say,

"Doing good" and it will really mean something.

Have a blessed day!
Jeff Russell
Friendship Baptist Church,Langenselbold, Germany

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