God asked. "Did you eat the fruit that i told you not to eat?" The man answered, "The woman you put here with me gave me the fruit, and i ate it" The LORD God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it." Genesis 3:11-13.
When God found Adam eating fruit in the garden, Adam stood up like a man and blamed it on Eve.
Eve, wanting to set a better example, blamed it on the snake. And in the twisted, pretzel logic only a snake can have, the snake -- in a sense -- BLAMED IT ON GOD!
Embedded in our fallen nature: is the instinct to not only dodge the blame ourselves, but also shift the blame to someone or something else. Praise Jesus, he comes with nail-scarred hands and a thorny crown, paying the price so that we can:
1.STOP Blaming
2. Confess our SINS
3. Stand BLameless before our Father in Heaven.
I read this post and it hit home with me. Most times when we make mistakes silly or serious we tend to shove the blame in the opposite direction!
Funny enough thats what i did! I pounced on a friend a bit too harshly and in the end blamed it on the same friend- Because it was her silliness that prompted the whole ISSUE from the very beginning. SERIOUSLY....hahah.
As i reflected on the Mistake, I found myself wanting to shift the blame. I rehearsed excuses. Perhaps you've been there... Perhaps you can hear an echo from the Garden: "She told me to do it." "He tricked me into it." "Did God really say you shouldnt do it? Perhaps he's just trying to keep you from what is best for you." Did Jesus really say we are Forgiven, or do we still need to hide behind EXCUSES and BLAME?
Where's the safest place to be -- under the CROSS OF JESUS, or in the Shadows cast by our pride and fear?
~PRAISE GOD, JESUS FREES US SO WE CAN STOP HIDING FROM GOD!
HE FREES US TO WALK IN HIS GRACE, FOLLOWING HIM INTO THE PRESENCE OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER!~
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