Have you noticed that more and more people seem to lack the ability to own up to their mistakes? It is easier to blame other people, other circumstances or even the weather than it is to stand up and say, I made a mistake.
Why are we so afraid of acknowledging publicly that we are not perfect? We seem to find it easy to find faults in others but not in ourselves.
Maybe we have always been that way but these days, we have the ability and inclination to blame others in a world-wide fashion before we take a moment to think it through.
We’ve become a world-wide society of individuals who take to social media, through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and whatever else is out there and speak our minds before we have had time to really formulate our thoughts and think through possible repercussions and consequences.
Taking responsibility for mistakes or worse, is never easy. Being responsible is becoming less and less of a thing that people strive for. Why be a responsible person when it is so much easier just to live in the moment and forget about the consequences?
We see this in every part of life. From the highest to the lowest. From the worst to the best individuals.
When you stop taking responsibility for your actions, then, of course, your actions will get worse and worse. We don’t live in a world where people blaming other people for what they themselves have done wrong, results in the one who blames becoming a better person.
People will blame governments and companies and even the weather, for the problems that they see in their lives. In some cases, those governments, companies and, yes, weather, are the main culprits behind a problem. But, in most situations, the individuals are looking for a scapegoat to put all of the blame on for things they have brought upon themselves.
But, let’s look at what is really at the root of it all.
When Adam and Eve first sinned is when shifting responsibility for actions first began. Eve blamed the serpent (that is, Satan) for deceiving her into her sin. Adam blamed Eve for simply handing him the fruit that was forbidden. This set a pattern of ever-decreasing responsibility for sin.
While Eve was deceived, Adam was not. He simply took what he was given even though he knew it was against God’s one rule. Our blaming others for our sins and even our simple mistakes, has grown out of this first encounter with sin.
On our own, we would rather blame others and try to escape our deserved consequences. Worse yet, we now convince ourselves that we are right in what we are doing and want to destroy those who say otherwise.
There are those of us who point fingers of blame at innocents and then demand that they be punished for what we did. There will come a day, in the not so distant future, when we will demand that the innocents die.
To some degree, that is already happening when mothers abort their babies because they are not convenient. Apparently, for many, having sex without adequate protection, was too great a burden. So, instead, the baby in the womb is blamed for coming into being. And their life is forfeited because of it.
It will go beyond that death of unborn babies and will spread across societies. In some societies, women can be murdered for the crime of having been raped. They can be killed for just simply dishonoring some male in their family. The dishonor is in the eyes of the male and doesn’t have to have any basis in truth.
There are those among us who call for the death of someone who doesn’t have the same political party. They have threatened they are out to get the others. When will they learn that having taken the final step and destroying one group that disagrees with or is different from you will only fracture society into more and more disparate groups. And those groups will begin to war with one another.
People are broken, they are fallen, they are sinners. They see everything through the dark glasses of their own sins. Anything that will point out their sin, is their enemy. They would rather have the truth destroyed rather than owning up to their sins.
At some point, God will have done all that he can do to bring the people of this world to repentance. He gave us a way to be saved, through the sacrifice of his son, Jesus. There will be a great many people who will turn their backs on him.
In the end, God will signal the time for the Great Tribulation to begin. He does this out of love because those who are left at that time who have not accepted Jesus and will never do so absent the horrific times of the seven years of the greatest tribulation that has ever been on this planet.
Even then, many will harden their hearts and their necks and will continue to reject him and to blame others. For the sake of the few who will turn to him, God will allow this period of history to unveil.
This is the time when all people will turn on each other. They will blame one another and seek the life of everyone else. If God doesn’t step in and intervene, those who are left would destroy mankind completely.
It all began with one sin and it continues today. That we are seeing more and more people sinning and blaming others seems to point to the end of time coming soon. It may be today, tomorrow, a hundred years from now or more. But, during whatever time is left, people will grow worse and worse and will blame others for more and more.
It is hard, as a Christian, to live through this. It seems so plain to see. You want to point it out to others and have them see and understand it. You should do so, but be aware that in doing so, you may become to individual who is blamed.
Jesus told us that we would be treated as poorly as he was. We are to understand that and glory in the fact that we may become martyrs for his sake.
We must, regardless of the consequences, be willing to let others know that Jesus loves them and died for their sins. He did so to save them for eternity.
Genesis 3:8-13
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
The man said, “The woman you put here with me — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”
The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”