When you've experienced failure there comes a time when you have to put on your big boy pants and take responsibility for your own actions. This may not always be easy but I can promise you this, when you do you're on the road to healing and closer to to a new beginning then you might think.
There's something very special that happens when you make a decision to not blame others but forgive others that have hurt you and take responsibility for yourself! You step right in the middle of God's mercy and grace and experience His unfailing love and faithfulness! My friends that's a great place to be, right in the middle of a fresh start!
We all have the tendency to want to play the blame game when things don't go right in our lives. In a more psychological term it's called "displaced responsibility." And this has been a problem since Adam and Eve committed sin in the Garden of Eden when Adam told God in Genesis 3:12 "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it." Read closely what Adam said here. He blamed both God and Eve.
In the Bible we read about two Kings named Saul and David who both sinned while on the throne of the kingdom. Saul was removed from his place of leadership while David remained King. Have you ever wondered why? Saul disobeyed God by not fully following through with God's instructions and David committed adultery and murder. Yet David remains King and Saul is removed.
It's my speculation but I think in part it's because David took full responsibility for his sin but Saul wanted to blame the people for his sin. In 1Samuel 15 we find Saul confessing he sinned but he say's it's because of the people I disobeyed God. In Psalm 51 you read David's prayer of repentance after his sin. Read closely because in his prayer he never even mentions Bathsheba, the woman he committed adultery with after he saw her taking a bath.
David had to put on his big boy pants and say "God, against You and You only have I sinned." Don't you know it would have been easy for David to make excuses saying something like this, "Well if she hadn't been taking a bath where I could see her this would have never happened." In other words it's her fault.
But I'm so thankful David didn't do that because you talk about restoration! Bathsheba became David's wife and they had a son and his name was Solomon. If you'll read Matthew chapter 1 you'll find the lineage of Jesus Christ. In verse 6 is the following, "Jesse was the Father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (whose mother was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah.) In the lineage of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is a relationship that started out in adultery. Wow, our God is good!
We'll talk more about this in my next blog but it's time to be honest. Stop and ask yourself, "Have I been blaming everyone else for my problems, for my failures?" I know there are times that people do hurt us but that's where forgiveness comes in. It just might be time for YOU to put on your big boy pants and take responsibility for yourself.
I'm not saying this to be harsh or mean. I want you to experience God's healing and love and get on the road to a new beginning! Because my friend, it's time to Dream.......Again!
An addition to this blog is coming soon.
Ken
There's something very special that happens when you make a decision to not blame others but forgive others that have hurt you and take responsibility for yourself! You step right in the middle of God's mercy and grace and experience His unfailing love and faithfulness! My friends that's a great place to be, right in the middle of a fresh start!
We all have the tendency to want to play the blame game when things don't go right in our lives. In a more psychological term it's called "displaced responsibility." And this has been a problem since Adam and Eve committed sin in the Garden of Eden when Adam told God in Genesis 3:12 "It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it." Read closely what Adam said here. He blamed both God and Eve.
In the Bible we read about two Kings named Saul and David who both sinned while on the throne of the kingdom. Saul was removed from his place of leadership while David remained King. Have you ever wondered why? Saul disobeyed God by not fully following through with God's instructions and David committed adultery and murder. Yet David remains King and Saul is removed.
It's my speculation but I think in part it's because David took full responsibility for his sin but Saul wanted to blame the people for his sin. In 1Samuel 15 we find Saul confessing he sinned but he say's it's because of the people I disobeyed God. In Psalm 51 you read David's prayer of repentance after his sin. Read closely because in his prayer he never even mentions Bathsheba, the woman he committed adultery with after he saw her taking a bath.
David had to put on his big boy pants and say "God, against You and You only have I sinned." Don't you know it would have been easy for David to make excuses saying something like this, "Well if she hadn't been taking a bath where I could see her this would have never happened." In other words it's her fault.
But I'm so thankful David didn't do that because you talk about restoration! Bathsheba became David's wife and they had a son and his name was Solomon. If you'll read Matthew chapter 1 you'll find the lineage of Jesus Christ. In verse 6 is the following, "Jesse was the Father of King David. David was the father of Solomon (whose mother was Bathsheba, the widow of Uriah.) In the lineage of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior is a relationship that started out in adultery. Wow, our God is good!
We'll talk more about this in my next blog but it's time to be honest. Stop and ask yourself, "Have I been blaming everyone else for my problems, for my failures?" I know there are times that people do hurt us but that's where forgiveness comes in. It just might be time for YOU to put on your big boy pants and take responsibility for yourself.
I'm not saying this to be harsh or mean. I want you to experience God's healing and love and get on the road to a new beginning! Because my friend, it's time to Dream.......Again!
An addition to this blog is coming soon.
Ken
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