Defense Attorney - Credibility & Objective Truth Proverbs 14:10

A few days ago my husband and I were singing the song, "How Deep the Father‘s Love", when my imagination began to weave a web. And, one of the verses in the song was, “it was my sin that held Him there until it was accomplished”… And then, I begin to think, as a young teenager I was trained in the word of God so I had learned about the deceitfulness of sin, and I thought I had regarded the instruction of the Word as a safeguard against sin. As the gears in my mind worked, a Bible truth came to memory to be reckoned with. Proverbs 14:10 "The heart knows it’s own bitterness."
So case in point, the heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it? Simply implicating ourselves.

As human nature is, we put ourselves in the best light, we look out for number one, because as
the expression goes, “You have to take care of number one.” And in that regard we defend ourselves, we often interpret the motive and intentions of our heart as good and not evil, and basically, all together without blame. We advocate for ourselves and this makes true, “for the heart is deceitfully wicked and who can know it?” We become our own defense attorney. Defending ourselves against the criticism of others, and my personal favorite, the one that says you are being too hard on yourself. It seems that the apex of light in our critical thinking, our defense attorney, speaks up for us and says we are not to blame. God’s Word says clearly, “if I regard sin in my heart, Thou oh God will not hear me.” Cleanse me from my presumptuous sin. Presuming I have no part in the outcome.

So, in the last analysis, it is true that it was my sin that held Him there until it was accomplished for me. Christ died on the cross for me.Though I prefer it were not so, He bled and died for us. The web of personal deception is destroyed with the grace of God and true repentance on my part.