The Blame Game

Proverbs 28:13

He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but who so ever confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy.

We all have the same tendency when it comes to answering for the mistakes that we have made. It is always easier to lay the blame on someone else. I guess we come by that trait pretty honestly though. This has been going on since the beginning of time.

In the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve had disobeyed God and had eaten of the forbidden fruit, God came by to talk with them. When He asked Adam about it, Adam said that the woman you gave me told me to. Then Eve said, “It wasn’t my fault, the serpent gave it to me.” I guess that Flip Wilson wasn’t the first to coin the phrase, “The devil made me do it” after all.

Years later we find the children of Israel waiting for Moses to come down from Mt Sinai. After a while, they despair and tell Aaron to make a golden calf for them to worship. When Moses comes back down and asks Aaron about the golden calf, he says that it was the people who made him do it.

It is the same today, when the Holy Spirit convicts us and shows us the truth about ourselves, we have two choices. We can accept the responsibility for our actions, or we can try to shift the blame over to someone else. Casting the blame on someone or something else is usually our first response when things go wrong. This is the flesh’s way of running from responsibility and saying, “It is not my fault, and I am not going to deal with it.”

The problem is that you and I cannot really be free from something until we admit the wrongness of it and accept the responsibility for it. For, until we admit that something is wrong, we cannot repent and until we repent we don’t walk in forgiveness and unbroken fellowship. We can accept the blame and repent now or we can blame others for our wrongs and not prosper. Don’t play the blame game, repent now.