Playing the Blame Game Devotional May 28, 2020

Playing the Blame Game

 Devotional May 28, 2020

 

 Whose fault is it anyway? When things don't go the way we expect, we are quick to blame others or even our current circumstance for our problems. Unfortunately, when we blame others, we eliminate the possibility of change. Playing the blame game is as old as Adam and Eve The Adam said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”  Genesis 3:12-13

 

The Blame game never has any winners and only leads to negative thinking here are some examples ;  people did us wrong, the company laid us off, my business didn’t make it,  I couldn’t get the testing I needed, there wasn’t enough medical supplies during this pandemic . It's easy to go through life blaming others, blaming ourselves, even blaming God, because we're always looking back, reliving the negative, we end up carrying around all this baggage that weighs our faith down.

 

 We will not live a victorious life if we always recall what did not work out, or who hurt us. I often wonder why we shift blame, maybe in part out of guilt, shame, bitterness or even pride.   Notice the bitterness Job’s wife harbored as she watched Job deteriorate from his mysterious and incurable disease “Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die!”   Job 2:9 

 

Martha blamed Jesus for the death of her brother Lazarus in John 11:21 Martha then said to Jesus, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.

 

We should not have the “Poor old me, look what I've been through" attitude. I've heard it said you can be pitiful or you can be powerful, but you cannot be both, and you may have made a lot of mistakes, you have a lot of regrets, you blew your marriage, didn't raise your children right, but you can't do anything about yesterday.  When we blame others, we avoid taking responsibility for our actions and when we do that, we will never grow. and when we blame God, we see Him incorrectly and we fail to see Him for who He really is-a loving God whose desire is to see us stop blaming and start living a blameless life.

 

Blame often shuts down the opportunity to see faith conquer the impossible.   There is a new beginning in front of you, but God will not release new opportunities if we are holding on to negative things in your past.   We are not defined by our past; we are prepared by our past.  We may not realize it, but we will come out stronger, with more confidence, greater experience. If this event had not have happened, we would not be prepared for the new heights that are coming your way.  

 

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