God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
Theodicy involves a vindication of God's justice against the charge that the presence of evil in creation shows Him to be unjust, impotent, both, or nonexistent. Theodicy declares that God is all-powerful and all-good even though this might not seem to be the case since evil exists in the creation.
There is a great difference between realizing, 'On that Cross He was crucified for me,' and 'On that Cross I am crucified with Him.' The one aspect brings us deliverance from sin’s condemnation, the other from sin’s power (John Mantle).