...righteous?

Perhaps you have a misperception of what righteousness is?

Simply put, it is doing the right thing.

If you´re not aiming at being righteous, whatever are you doing? Given a choice, who would choose to do the wrong thing?



The catch is...how do you really know what the right thing to do is?

[Re: There is a way to stop being righteous: if you love!]

Sin is missing the mark...the mark being ´doing the right thing´...when you miss -- you do the wrong thing -- and doing wrong is sinning.
What will guide your aim, or guarantee you always hit the target?
Self-aiming is self-righteousness, and God assures us we never hit the target that way. And He should know, He is the target we aim at...if He´s our Father, then as His children, He´s the one we would like to grow into being -- we aim to be like Him.
Since He´s the only one Who is always doing Right, and can be no wrong in Him, the only way to be right, is to be like Him.
If I were somehow to have His ´rightness´, then I wouldn´t be crashing around breaking things, doing any wrong...
The Story is, that He provides that ´rightness´ for us...if we ask for it, and abandon our own notions of ´rightness´.

Now what is so ´terrible´ about righteousness?