The Robe of Righteousness SIMPLIFIED

"Many are the ideas that flit round’ on the internet concerning what is the robe of covering Christ gives to us. Let us in this article place our attention on these two paragraphs in sequence from Ellen White’s book, Christ’s Object Lessons, pp. 311-312:

"Only the covering which Christ Himself has provided can make us meet to appear in God’s presence. This covering, the robe of His own righteousness, Christ will put upon every repenting, believing soul.

“I counsel thee,” He says, “to buy of Me ... white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear” (Revelation 3:18).
This robe, woven in the loom of heaven, has in it not one thread of human devising. Christ in His humanity wrought out a perfect character, and this character He offers to impart to us. “All our righteousness are as filthy rags.” Isaiah 64:6. 

Everything that we of ourselves can do is defiled by sin. 

But the Son of God “was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin.” Sin is defined to be “the transgression of the law.” 1 John 3:5, 4. 

But Christ was obedient to every requirement of the law. He said to His disciples, “I have kept My Father’s commandments.” John 15:10. 

By His perfect obedience He has made it possible for every human being to obey God’s commandments. 

When we submit ourselves to Christ, 

--the heart is united with His heart, 

--the will is merged in His will, 

--the mind becomes one with His mind, 

--the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; 

we live His life. 

This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. 

Then as the Lord looks upon us He sees, not the fig-leaf garment, not the nakedness and deformity of sin, but His own robe of righteousness, which is perfect obedience to the law of Jehovah."

In older English “meet” to appear means “fit” to appear." 

Larry Kirkpatrick