In 1991 Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep starred in a movie called Defending Your Life. It was a comedy about a man who, after his death, is forced to justify the way he lived before he is permitted to move on. The movie was set in a courtroom format, and the main character was forced to review his decisions and to demonstrate that he lived a life of courage and nobility rather than fear and selfishness.
What would you say if you had to defend your life? What would you say if you had to justify all your actions?
Whether or not we realize it, we are all seeking to be justified. This is why we get defensive when someone criticizes us. This is why we over-explain ourselves to those who question us. This is why we worry about what others think of us.
This Sunday we will read a passage in which the Apostle Paul talks about the different ways we look to be justified, and then he points us to the one and only source of true justification.
Dan
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