Romans 2:14–15 - "In my deffense..."

Graffiti, Greenough Park, Missoula, MT

Returning from Coeur d'Alene Idaho last August we stopped to have a picnic lunch at Greenough Park in Missoula, Montana. 

On a retaining wall, I saw the following graffiti:
"In My deffense I was left unsupervized."

The author was either not well educated or not a native speaker. Who did they write this for? Anyone in particular?

Perhaps they meant it as a joke; it's the sort of tongue-in-cheek wisecrack one or two of my friends would make. And it did make me chuckle.

Or were they serious? Had they gotten in trouble with the law, or at least irritated another person or persons unknown? After all, there are people whose self-defense is lack of self-control: "No one stopped me!"

The Bible says that even those, "who do not have God’s written law [of the Old Testament and Ten Commandments], show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right." (Romans 2:14–15, New Living Translation, 2015)

Being "left unsupervised" isn't a valid excuse with God. Even without external constraints, everyone has an internal conscience. The conscience isn't perfect; it needs to be trained and educated according to scripture. But basic concepts of right and wrong are imprinted on everyone's conscience: Honesty, justice, compassion... 

Spirit of God,
Cut through the excuses I make in self-defense. When I'm being as dense as a box of rocks, "remove the heart of stone" and replace it with "a heart of flesh," sensitive to your direction and guidance. Change my conscience from within so I'll "walk in Your statutes, and so I will be careful to observe Your ordinances." (Ezekiel 36:26–27). Amen