Maybe, one of the greatest lessons Christ taught us is, also, one of the most overlooked. Not until this past week did I ever recognize a message clearly scripted in Christ’s life and death. So, in both the attempt to become wiser myself and open a window for others, please, walk with me the path of deciphering BLAME.
To the majority of us humans, when anything undesirable, negative or disastrous happens, the knee jerking BLAME game automatically begins. Many blame others. Some blame themselves. Christ blamed no one – not even all of us sinners.
Throughout His earthly life, and especially during His passion and crucifixion, Christ never spoke of blame. His sole purposes was to do His father’s will and save the souls of us, His sinful, earthly brothers and sisters. Jesus always reacted in love, never angry blame.
Christ knew no blame and gave no blame. So, why do we? Once again, Satan take a bow. Blame is of Satan. Blame takes our focus off Christ’s way of living, and dying, and puts it smack-dab on sinful man’s failures. Eventually, Satan gets many to go beyond the human realm of responsibility and blame God for all misfortunes and failures. Bingo, Satan then scores big time. The devil’s strategy turns us away from living like Christ by encouraging us to blame God for the evil Satan, himself, generates.
Blame is tearing our society apart. Instead of constructively rectifying wrong, the stalemate of throwing blame has totally stymied our ability to, like Christ, do our Father’s will.
For me, personally, this has been a challenging week of hard lesson learned. However, my heart is grateful that God used it to enlighten me. Hard times are not overcome through blame. They are only surmounted in trying to reflect Christ by striving to trust and glorify God’s will and God’s way.
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 