I have noticed that when we try to be our own righteousness it doesn't last, it is too much hard work to maintain that which is not in our hearts.
When we don't try and we trust God, His burden light, and the change He made in us, never reverses, it becomes a part of our very being, not something that we have to portray in front of others.
Ephesians 2:10 "For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
Has anyone else noticed that some people who seemed so godly when they were younger, regressed as they got older? All the things they used to be against they were more tolerant and even defensive of, because there was no longer a desire to fight the good fight. They were fighting the fight in their own flesh, which is all worn out.
I think this is because much self righteousness was going on in the younger years, there was the strength to keep up the pretense, however as the person gets older, it is too much work and there was a letting go of the pretense allowing the real inner self to emerge.
When Christ is doing our righteousness, there is no regression or reversing, only permanent and effortless grace that keeps us, sort of like a clay pot. When the pot is in the moldable soft condition, it can be shaped and changed, but once it is baked it can no longer be changed, it is Rock hard, never to go back to what it was before.
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