THE BLAME GAME
“And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”– Gen. 3:12
Dr. Mike Minnix said : We have reached the point in our day that people don’t want to accept personal responsibility for their actions. The mantra is, “If I did something wrong, someone else caused it!” Note the poem by Anna Russell entitled, “Psychiatric Folk Song.”
“I went to my psychiatrist to be psychoanalyzed to find out why I killed the cat and blackened my husband’s eyes.
He laid me on a downy couch to see what He could find, And here’s what he dredged up, from my subconscious mind.
When I was one, my mummy hid my dolly in a trunk and so it follows naturally, that I am always drunk.
When I was two, I saw my father kiss the maid one day, And that is why I suffer from kleptomania.
At three I had a feeling of ambivalence towards my brothers and so it follows naturally, I poisoned all my lovers.
But I am happy now I have learned the lessons this has taught everything I do that’s wrong, is someone else’s fault.”
Doesn’t that sound like our generation? The Bible says that each person shall answer for his or her own sins. If we confess those sins, God is faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). As long as we deny our sins, we have no hope of forgiveness.
Think about that last phrase- “no hope of forgiveness”. What an awful thought! How scary to think of being in such a wretched condition. We blame others hoping to escape the consequences of our attitude and actions, yet we end up bringing a curse upon ourselves. We rob ourselves of peace, joy, and the ability to be a blessing to others or useful to God, all because we are too proud to accept the responsibility for decisions we have made. If we are wise we will confess our sins, learn from our failures, and seek God’s help to avoid making the same mistake again. – HDS
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
