God Doesn’t Need Our Defense

When people are hurting, what they need from us is compassion birthed from unconditional Love…not a defense of God or a theological treatise justifying ‘why bad things happen’.  Listen to them.  Feel their pain with them.  And yes, encourage them!  But encourage from a position of Love, not the mistaken posture of the self-appointed apologist of the Divine.  The God who willingly, voluntarily, and completely relinquished Himself to the angry mob of our mistaken identity so as to appease our perceived need for blood is surely not so easily offended.  He does not need, nor want, our defense.  The Architect of all that is can take care of Himself without our help.  He prioritizes His nature (Love) above all else…and so should we.  


Passages to Consider:

Romans 8:32 (NASB95)
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? 

Luke 9:51–56 (NASB95): 51 When the days were approaching for His ascension, He was determined to go to Jerusalem; 
 52 and He sent messengers on ahead of Him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements for Him. 
 53 But they did not receive Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem. 
 54 When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” 
 55 But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; 
 56 for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”] And they went on to another village



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