We have an advocate with the Father.
—1 John 2:1
In Stephen Vincent Benét’s short story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Jabez Stone, from Cross Corners, New Hampshire, has been battered with a barrage of bad luck. “It’s enough to make a man want to sell his soul to the devil,” he says. The next day he’s visited by Mr. Scratch, who offers him seven years of prosperity in exchange for his soul. Stone accepts.
At the end of the seven years, Scratch comes for Stone’s soul. Stone hires noted lawyer Daniel Webster, whose eloquence wins the jury’s verdict in favor of Stone. Fiction, of course,
Our sinful condition is far from fictional. Fortunately, we have adequate defense: “We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 Jn 2:1). He exchanges our sin-stained clothes with his robe of righteousness (2 Cor 5:21).
You look good dressed in his righteousness.