The Blame Game

"And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat." Genesis 3:11-13

Do you see the issue here? The first words out of Adam's mouth after he sinned was it was the woman's fault. The first words out of Eve's mouth was it was the serpent that made me do it. Neither accepted responsibility for their actions. We fall into the same trap today. When we make mistakes we place blame on anything and everything but never seem to accept that we just messed up. When my children make a mistake they always blame why they did something wrong on the other one. Why is it so hard to accept responsibility? When my children are honest that don't get in as much trouble as they do when they place blame on their siblings.

Adam said the woman that you gave me. Adam found a way to blame God and Eve. So many of us have this same spirit working in us. The spirit of pride. We blame God for what is wrong in our lives we blame our spouse/love one for making us sin. This pride will always corrupt the gifts that God gives us. The woman was created for Adam to be a benefit to him. But when he messed up the fear in him provoked him to respond in pride. Don't think that you or I are any better we would have eaten the fruit to. We blame Adam for our problems today. "If he would have not eaten the fruit we would not be in the state that we are in." We are not lying but it deflects the blame onto Adam and we avoid taking responsibility for our actions.

Stop living in the blame game it time for us to be honest with ourselves and with God. God is not to blame for our mistakes. We are. Our family and friends are not to blame for our mistakes. We are. When we live in intergity it leaves no place for pride to destroy our fellowship with God. Until we are honest the mistake will be over our heads. It will stain our garments and it will permeate our lifestyle. Let us break the wall of blame and allow God to refine our hearts and cleanse us from our ways. Our spouse is not our enemy. We are our greatest enemy. We have to stop thinking everyone is against us it is our flesh that is destroying us. We need God. He is the only way and the only One that can defeat our flesh. Give your life to Him today.

Whatever you have done wrong confess it to God and allow His grace to cleanse you. It is time to recreate our marriages, our relationships, our lives by walking in love, humility and intergity. God bless you.