SS Thoughts #35: You Don’t Have To Fight!

Most of us spend a great deal of time and energy trying to defend our reputations, our positions, our actions, our words, our decisions, and ourselves. We are truly wasting our time. When others are judgmental toward us, we may finally after much effort convince them of our purity of heart. However since people tend to be judgmental in nature, they will soon find something else to judge us for.

BUT we have an Advocate!!!!

When we need to be defended, our Advocate defends us, acting as a legal assistant would for a client. This Advocate is the Holy Spirit—appointed by God to come to our defense and plead our cause. This third member of the Triune has literally been called to our side to help us in every way, (John 14:16-26 & John 16:7-11).

So you don’t have to fight..... You don't have to defend yourself when you are accused of wrong actions..... Your best course of action is to pray and let the Holy Spirit do His job and be your Advocate and Defender. Knowing this should bring encouragement and comfort to all of us.

“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels or demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord”. (Romans 8:38-39. NIV)

[Partially adapted from Joyce Meyer’s Devotional: Hearing from God Each Morning]

Update:
A friend shared the 'donkey' story as an illustration that whatever you do people will criticize: