A few years ago, I heard a sermon by John MacArthur called The Sufficiency of Scripture. I was amazed at his meditation and insight on Psalm 19. Absolutely beautiful.

One thing he talked about (unfortunately, not documented in sermon transcription) is our desire to defend the scriptures, and to defend God. He said, “The Gospel is like a lion, you just need to let it out.” Why do we feel like we have to defend and justify God? If we really believed that His law is perfect and has the power to restore, His testimony is sure and makes us wise, His precepts are right and cause our hearts to rejoice, His commandment is pure and enlightening, to fear Him is to bring about cleanliness that endures forever, His judgments are true and righteous, and all of this being more desirable than gold, if we really believed that maybe we wouldn’t be so quick to want to defend God but we would just turn lose the Gospel and point people that way.

Just maybe.