This is the precious biblical truth of justification (Gal. 2:16). You no longer have to justify your life. You don’t have to worry, like Jay Gatsby, about others thinking you’re a nobody. You don’t have to go the distance, like Rocky, to prove you’re not a bum. Christ marries himself to you, and in a wonderful exchange, you give him all your sins and he gives you all of his righteousness.
