Proverbs 19:3 A person’s own folly leads to their ruin, yet their heart rages against the LORD.
Have you ever noticed how other people, certainly not you or I, but other people want to avoid taking responsibility for their decisions? They can be standing there with the piston in their hand, gun residue on their clothing, cell phone footage with sound of the event from multiple angles, and they stay say someone else did it. Or maybe they couldn’t help themselves, or their dog ate their homework.
Of course this is the way people have been handling getting caught since the beginning. Adam pointed at his wife, Eve pointed at the snake. The LORD would have none of this blame-shifting. Punishment and protection from further consequences happened.
But even with the examples from previous generations and even previous incidents in our own lives, we still have the tendency to try to squirm out of the negative consequences of our poor choices. It is one thing when it is an accident. Everyone understands when things are out of your control. But when you have the power to stop it and you don’t, you hold the smoking gun.
I think the worst cases happen when someone tries to blame God for terrible things that people do. “If God really cared, he wouldn’t have let that person pull the trigger. He is to blame.” The line between our responsibility and the ability of God to intervene often gets conflicted in the minds of some people.
The LORD gives people the ability to make choices, and then holds them responsible for the choices that they make. The servant who received only one measure of gold and buried it in the ground was held responsible for his inaction. No excuse given for blaming the LORD.
Do you point your finger at the LORD and blame him for negative things happening, especially while you take credit for the good things?
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