Where do you go when you need righteousness? When you've failed again, and guilt is crushing you? When you look at God's standards and know you don't measure up?
Do you try to generate your own righteousness through better behavior? Do you work to accumulate enough good deeds to balance out the bad? Or do you go to the place where righteousness is stored and available?
Scripture calls Christ the great depositary of justifying righteousness and sanctifying grace. Think about what a depositary is—it’s a storage place, a repository, a location where valuable things are kept safe and made available to those who need them. Christ is that for righteousness and grace. He doesn’t just have some righteousness to share. He’s the great depositary—the complete, sufficient, inexhaustible storage place of everything you need for both justification and sanctification.
This is crucial to understand. You don’t have righteousness stored up within yourself that you can draw on when you need it. You don’t have a reservoir of grace you accumulated through good behavior. You’re spiritually bankrupt, empty, lacking. But Christ has everything you need in infinite supply. Justifying righteousness that declares you acceptable to God. Sanctifying grace that transforms your character. Both stored in Him, both available to you, both accessed through faith.
Think about justifying righteousness. This is the righteousness that satisfies God’s law, that answers every demand of His justice, that makes you legally acceptable in His sight. Can you produce that? Can you generate enough righteousness through your behavior to stand before a holy God? Of course not. Your best efforts are tainted by mixed motives. Your finest achievements fall short of perfection. You have no righteousness adequate for God’s presence.
But Christ does. His perfect obedience satisfied every requirement. His spotless life answered every demand. His righteousness is complete, sufficient, acceptable. And it’s stored in Him as a depositary, available to everyone who comes to Him in faith. You don’t have to produce it yourself—you just have to receive what He’s offering.
Now think about sanctifying grace. This is the grace that actually transforms you, that changes your character, that produces holiness in your life. Can you manufacture that through discipline and determination? Can you generate transformation through sheer willpower? No. You can modify behavior temporarily, but you can’t change your heart. You can appear righteous externally while remaining corrupt internally. You lack the power to truly transform yourself.
But Christ has that power stored up in infinite supply. Sanctifying grace that breaks sin’s power. Transforming grace that changes desires. Empowering grace that enables obedience. All of it stored in Him, all of it available to you, all of it accessed by faith. You don’t have to work it up—you just have to draw on what He provides.
This is why Scripture says all may come to Him and receive of His fullness. Not some. Not the spiritually elite. Not those who’ve already achieved certain levels of righteousness. All. Everyone. Anyone. You can come regardless of how far you’ve fallen, how badly you’ve failed, how deeply you’re in bondage to sin. Come to Him and receive of His fullness. Not receive a little bit to get you started. Receive of His fullness—access to the complete, inexhaustible supply of everything you need.
But here’s where many believers get stuck. They believe intellectually that Christ has righteousness and grace available, but they don’t actually access it. They’re like someone dying of thirst next to a flowing fountain. The water is available. The supply is inexhaustible. But they’re not drinking. Why? Maybe pride—they think they should be able to produce their own righteousness. Maybe ignorance—they don’t realize how accessible it is. Maybe unbelief—they don’t really trust that it’s sufficient for their specific needs.
Think about Christ’s invitation. Come to Me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Who is this invitation for? Those who are laboring—working hard, striving, struggling. Those who are heavy laden—burdened, weighed down, crushed under the load they’re carrying. That’s the invitation—come to Christ with your labor and burdens, and He’ll give you rest.
But what does it mean to come? It means you stop trying to produce what only He can provide. You stop laboring to generate your own righteousness. You stop carrying the burden of transformation through your own effort. You acknowledge your need, you admit your inability, you recognize His sufficiency, and you receive what He offers. That’s coming to Christ—it’s the movement from self-dependence to Christ-dependence.
So why do so many believers continue in exhausted striving? Why do they keep laboring to produce righteousness they can’t generate? Why do they remain heavy laden under burdens of guilt and inadequacy? Because they haven’t truly come to Christ as the great depositary of everything they need. They’re trying to be their own source instead of drawing from the Source.
Here’s the practical question: When you sin today—and you probably will—where will you go? Will you spiral into self-condemnation, trying to punish yourself enough to feel acceptable again? Will you work extra hard at spiritual disciplines to make up for your failure? Or will you come to Christ, the great depositary of justifying righteousness, and receive fresh provision of the righteousness you need?
And when you face temptation tomorrow—and you probably will—where will you turn? Will you try to overcome it in your own strength, relying on willpower and determination? Or will you draw on Christ, the great depositary of sanctifying grace, accessing the power you need to resist?
The supply is inexhaustible. The access is continuous. The provision is complete. Everything you need for both justification and sanctification is stored in Christ and available to you right now. Not someday when you’re more spiritual. Not eventually when you’ve proven yourself. Now. Today. In this moment. All you have to do is come and receive of His fullness.
“And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.” (John 1:16)
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