Casting blame

“The man 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.” (Gen. 3:12-13 ESV)

Casting blame is nothing new

You can read about blame casting in Genesis 3:12-13. When confronted by their sin, Eve blamed the serpent and Adam blamed both Eve and God, “The woman you gave to be with me…gave me fruit…”  Since then, nothing has changed. There is still a lot of blame-casting these days! You see it everywhere, especially in the news, everybody is blaming everybody else about this and that and no one is willing to take responsibility for their own actions. Using politics as just one example, the left blames the right and the right blames the left for everything! I saw a quote (it didn’t have who had written it), and I thought it was insightful. It said, “Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. Worst people give you a lesson and best people give you memories.” There is a lot of wisdom here. In other words, instead of blaming, look for the good. 

Be kind, tender-hearted and forgiving of one another 

“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.” (Eph. 4:31)

Therefore…

“Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.” (Matt. 7:3-5 ESV)

Quote:

“You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.” – John Wooden