What is righteousness?

So I have been thinking today about righteousness. God has a very simple cut and dry set of laws and he says that unless we abide by them we are going against His nature and we will be punished. I read Psalm 7 tonight and it makes that explicitly clear. But I also see the heart of the law, what God meant by it when He wrote it. He wanted us to love others and be good people who others speak well of. The kind of people we all dream of being. We were to be rightly related to Him, put no other god's before Me. We were to love and care for other people and treat them like they matter, don't steal, don't covet, respect your mother and father. We were to be rightly related to ourselves, don't covet-i.e. wanting what someone else has causes us pain when God has provided what He deemed good for us.

The problem I am having is when I see things go against the written law. Jesus' brothers are going to the festival and they ask Him "is He going? he says no but then shows up later. Did He not deceive them? Rahab was rewarded for lying to help the Jews. and missionaries have to withhold the truth about why they are really there, they deceive by not telling the whole truth. Corrie Ten Boom's the "hiding place" describes two sisters. One never lied, ever, even if it meant telling the gestapo that Jews were hiding in their home. Corrie lied and bought stolen goods to get safe passage for the Jews. God blessed and helped both. How does that work?

I want to make sure that Christianity is real and I am not just over looking discrepancies and later on down the road I will loose my faith because I will be eaten up by doubt. I don't want to stop believing. Corrie Ten Boom told the story of how her father explained injustice to her at a very young age. He said that just as a suitcase was too heavy for her to carry while she was young and He had to carry it for her and he will let her carry it when she is able so it is with injustice. For now I will let God carry this too heavy burden and wait for the answers when I can understand them and not be destroyed by them.

Father's don't just love their kids every now and then its a love without end amen.