Who is Righteous?

DEVOTION
ROMANS
WHO IS RIGHTEOUS?
Rom 3:5-9

5 But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?" 8 Why not say — as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say — "Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved. 9 What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin.
NIV

Is it not that I should try my level best to please my Lord, is it not that I should do all in my power to resist the Devil so he will flee from me, is it not that I should hold myself to the standard which God desires and deserves from me, yes, I should do all that and more. I cannot willingly evade what God demands simply to show his grace. I cannot tell unbelievers by my actions that I am allowing God to be forgiving or allowing him to show how loving and kind he is to me even though I am a disobedient son. But I am left in a dilemma, I am a disobedient son, I need his forgiveness, I am charged as one under sin. Yet the good news applies to me, I am saved by faith, not by my good or bad deeds but because of what Jesus did for me. Yes! Condemned, but redeemed! I must live as such.