Genesis 3:12 The
man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree,
and I ate it.”
The
blame game is one of the most popular games throughout the world. The game's
object is shifting the blame for anything we might be responsible for to
someone else. The game started in the Garden of Eden when Adam told God the
woman made me do it. This scripture shows that Adam attempted to blame God; he
said, "The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the
tree, and I ate it." The blame game did not stop, with Adam attempting to
shift the blame to Eve. She claimed the serpent was to blame, "the serpent
deceived me" (Genes 3:13).
Blaming others for our wrongdoings is
embedded in our DNA; we will do whatever it takes to blame our mistakes on
someone else. A "blame Gamer" got stopped for driving while
intoxicated. His excuse was that the police officers were just out to get him
because of the sports car he drove. Some say that if the doctor had not
prescribed those pain pills, I would have never gotten hooked. Another
acceptable excuse might be, "If they hadn't served champagne at my
friend's wedding, I would not have had to drive home intoxicated.
The excuses are endless but remember
this one thing: We can fix the problem, or we can fix the blame; the decision
is in our hands. There is not one place in the Holy Bible where God excuses us
for sinful behavior because of someone else's wrongdoings. We will all have to
answer for our actions in this life, good or bad (2 Corinthians 5:10).
God did not accept the excuses from Adam
and Eve, and He will not accept any excuses for our actions we might attempt to
bring forth to Him. Some others might have contributed to our shortcomings;
however, God has given us free will to choose the good or the bad. The question
before us today is, "Are we trying to justify our past or change our
future? All we must do is go to the Lord on bended knees, accept responsibility
for what we have done, and ask for His forgiveness. God will never turn us
down; his forgiveness is all-encompassing because Jesus paid the price for our
sins in full on the Cross of Calvary.
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