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Much
to our great concern, Bonita and I ran across a grades note the other day from
one of our kid's teachers. Reviewing the list of apparent "F's" got us rather
stirred up to say the least. We decided it was time to go to the teacher and figure
out what was going on. Without doing that we could only see grounding the kid
from sports and other extra curricular activities (possibly for life). Fortunately
he had an advocate.
The advocate ended up being the teacher.
Seems there was a little misunderstanding as to the meaning of the grades. When
the situation was known and the grades properly interpreted we found him to be
in much more acceptable shape academically. Without his teacher stepping in as
his "lawyer", everyone would have been very upset.
In part, 1
John 2:1+2 reads, "And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous; and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins."
We would not be able to maintain the relationship we have with
the Father if the Son didn't lovingly step in as our Lawyer.
In a sense, Jesus stands before the Father representing us and saying something
like, "yes, he has sinned, but here is the document written in My Blood that shows
that sin has been forgiven!"
Have you thanked God recently that He lovingly appointed an
attorney for you in Jesus Christ? You are represented well!
All Scripture references are from the New American Standard
Version unless otherwise noted.
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Love's Lawyer
