It all started with man’s Fall in the Garden of Eden. Adam blamed God for giving him the woman who had given him the fruit; and Eve passed the blame on to the devil for beguiling her. But no soul has ever been freed from the pig pen of self-justification until he or she, in sincerity, cries out from his or her heart, “It’s not my brother or my sister, but me, O Lord…” Passing the buck, so to speak, will always leave one a pauper in character. The scriptural term, I believe, is “weighed and found wanting.”
Many spend their lives trying to convince themselves and those around them that it is someone else’s fault they are the way they are. But intelligent people are not taken in by such shamitry. For they see clearly standing before them an individual who is desperately trying to vindicate his or her life-style of miserable existence. For they know for them to point the finger at themselves would mean swimming up-stream, against the current. And with this sort of creature, the effort is not worth it.
Breaking or throwing out all the mirrors in our lives doesn’t solve anything. Only by taking a good, long, and honest look at ourselves in the mirror of God’s Word will we be truly changed for the better (11Cor.3:18).
There is no fortune in blaming others for our miss-fortune.
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