The only reason people have to defend themselves is because they don't have a God that can defend them.
You should read the book of Job when you have the time because it scripturally documents the following: bad things, very bad things in fact, can and do happen to good people and it has nothing whatsoever to do with God "defending" them. God certainly can and does defend you, but believing in God does not somehow give you over to a cakewalk of a life where you'll never have evil done to you in this life on earth. Job was as righteous as there is when it comes to man yet look how Satan attacked him. King David was righteous - a man "after God's own heart" yet he defended Israel. There are countless examples of this, and as Christ said he didn't come to change one jot of the law.
You should read the book of Job when you have the time because it scripturally documents the following: bad things, very bad things in fact, can and do happen to good people and it has nothing whatsoever to do with God "defending" them. God certainly can and does defend you, but believing in God does not somehow give you over to a cakewalk of a life where you'll never have evil done to you in this life on earth. Job was as righteous as there is when it comes to man yet look how Satan attacked him. King David was righteous - a man "after God's own heart" yet he defended Israel. There are countless examples of this, and as Christ said he didn't come to change one jot of the law.