In a culture that is driven by a victim mentality, our identities often become wrapped up in the wrongs we have endured. So busy nursing our wounds, we become blind to ways that we wound. It’s the longing to place ourselves on the right side of our individual histories.

It is the primordial word from the garden,

‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.’ Genesis 3:12

The problem with deflection and why it is an affront to the very foundation of the gospel is because it is a refusal of grace toward others while abusing it in ourselves.

Josh White