Perhaps the hardest time to trust God is when we are being attacked by those who we think do not have the truth on their side. Our human instinct is to rise up in defense of ourselves, to try to 'set straight' the people who argue as if they are right and you are wrong. There are many tactics that we often employ in defensiveness, but what if they are all wrong save one. What if defensiveness was as great of a sin as the wrong being committed against the person at that time? Consider todays verse that gave me pause: Mark 15:32, "Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe. Those crucified with Him also heaped insults on Him." The context of the verse is Jesus at Golgotha. He has been already been falsely charged, assaulted, sleep deprived, man handled, taken to illegitimate courts, handed over to Rome as a common criminal, rejected by those who a week ago 'loved' him, scourged, humiliate...