Putting On Christ

In our finite human understanding, we sometimes cannot see how God is working and we do not comprehend why things happen the way they do.
People blame God for the horrific and shocking things that are happening in our world.
God is not a dictator. He gave man a free will and there is evil in the world because man invited it in. Terrible things occur not because God does not care for His children. They occur because man is "born in sin and shapen inquity."
But those who know Jesus do not have to fear anything!
David wrote that the Lord was his shield. A shield does not remain stationary. It stays in the hand of the soldier and can be moved to protect any part of that soldier that is vulnerable or under threat. God does not stay in one place. He protects us wherever and whenever we need protection. During the centuries of hand-to-hand combat, the shield often displayed the emblem of the family, royal house, or ruling government that the soldiers represented. When we are baptized in the name of Jesus, that name is displayed for our enemy to see. Baptism is "for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:38), or "to wash away ... sins" (Acts 22:16), and the name of
Jesus is the only name given for remission of sins, "through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins" (Acts 10:43). Acts 4:12 "Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 22:16 "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord." In Acts 8, Peter and John went into Samaria to pray for the people, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. vs.16 "...they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus." In Acts 10, Cornelius and his household were baptized in the name of the Lord after they received the Holy Ghost.
"Jesus" is the supreme name by which God has chosen to reveal Himself to us. "Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Philippians 2:9-11).
When you are baptized in the name of Jesus, you carry the authority and protection of that name. "So many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death" (Romans 6:3). "For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ" (Gal 3:27).

I'm glad I've put on Christ.
I'm glad He is my shield.