Let’s keep it real! How many people that you know have messed-up their own life and blame it on someone else? Or maybe you have chosen your own pathway in life and that pathway has caused you nothing but pain and sorrow.
“A man may ruin his chance by his own foolishness and then blame it on the Lord” Proverbs 19:3.
Sometimes our eyes will deceive us. Everything that looks good to you isn’t good for you. All that glitters isn’t gold. Some people have thought that they have met Mr. or Miss Right, and all they turned out to be was Mr. and Miss Wrong. Some people have relocated to places that they shouldn’t have, and taken jobs that weren't right for them. All because we didn’t wait on God, or maybe God said, “NO," but we wanted to have our own way. We have quit jobs that we shouldn’t have because of whatever reason.
Have you noticed that somehow we can always find someone to blame for our bad decisions. Somebody, in our mind, needs to be thrown “under the bus”, and there unbeknownst to them, they have become the scapegoat for all the bad decisions that we made, have been officially transferred to someone else. The Blame Game, there isn’t anything new about this game. People have been playing it for thousands of years. Adam, Eve, Aaron, and Ahab, all have something in common. They all blamed someone else for their sin and never took personal responsibility for their actions. When sin made its entrance into this world, God confronted Adam, Adam replied, “The woman you put here with me, she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.” And in her defense Eve replied, “The Serpent deceived me, and I ate it” Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent; it was everyone else’s fault. Cain was cursed for killing his brother Abel, and he blamed God and thought that his punishment was too much for him to bear. Ahab found himself at war for the vicious murder of Naboth for his vineyard, and he blamed God for not ever blessing him.
Most of the problems that we have, are from our own fault. We foolishly chose to have it our own way instead of listening and waiting on God. When we live a foolish life, it will come back to haunt us.
It's time to stop playing “The Blame Game.” It is time to take ownership of the mistakes we have made. Whatever happened in our lives, we did it to ourselves.
We sit there and think to ourselves what we should have accomplished, if it wasn’t for whoever and whatever. We sometimes think that certain people are holding us down or keeping us back. We may blame our failed marriage on someone else. Our unsuccessfulness in careers and jobs, lack of opportunities, and someone’s lack of ability to see us as a rising star, that you think you are.
Let me share this with you please. Never blame someone else for your choices. We are still the ones who must live out the consequences of our choices. Stop Blaming Others!
We often blame other people for our setbacks and failures instead of taking responsibility for ourselves. You and you alone are responsible for your choices. We all have free will to make our own choices but we often let others influence our choices. We make choices that will make our parents proud. We make choices to fit into the group of friends we have. We make choices to please our boss. All these choices are yours to make and if you make all your choices based on others, that is also a choice. Take responsibility for your choice, your setbacks, your failures and stop blaming others.
Every day we are faced with making a choice to live for God. We choose to obey or disobey God. When we are disobedient, we have only ourselves to blame and no one else.
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