[Songs in the Night - March 6]
We have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous. I John 2:1
WHY do we need an Advocate?
Because, although
as new creatures we are free from condemnation and
have fullest relationship with the Father and can go
to him at "the throne of heavenly grace to obtain mercy
and find grace to help in every time of need," nevertheless
we new creatures have not our new bodies and
will not have them until we receive them in the first
resurrection.
Meantime, according to divine arrangement,
we must use our earthly bodies, which both God
and we acknowledge to be imperfect.
Since we can
act only through our bodies, it follows that "we cannot
do the things that we would," because "in our flesh
dwelleth no perfection."
But if, through the weakness
or ignorance of the flesh we err, the divine provision
for us is that our Advocate, whose ransom merit was
applied to us, will appear for us (figuratively apply his
merit) for the cancellation of our unintentional misdeeds
and thus maintain us in the Father's sight without
spot or wrinkle. Z'09-347 R4516:6 (Hymn 141)