Key Verse: Verse 25- “Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?”
Key Words: are not your ways unequal
The teaching of this chapter answers the new psychology we have today. Psychology argues that the reason a person is a brat or an oddball is because his mother didn’t treat him right but neglected him and didn’t love him. My friend, you stand alone. You are a sinner because you are a sinner yourself. There’s an old bromide that is rather crude, but it certainly expresses it well: Every tub must sit on its own bottom. Every individual will stand before God, and he won’t be able to blame his papa and mama at that time.
Israel is blaming God; they are saying “You are the reason we are the way we are.” Ever since Adam and Eve the human race has played the blame game. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, Elijah blamed God, and so it goes.
The Tennessean (Sunday, August 1, 1999) printed an article with the title, “First lady links affairs to childhood abuse.” Hillary Clinton had vowed not to discuss her husband’s affairs with Monica Lewinsky or her feelings about his philandering. But in an interview with an English publication, she placed the blame for Bill Clinton’s adultery on his childhood abuse. The former first lady says that Bill was barely four years old when he learned of a terrible conflict between his mother and his grandmother. She claims that a psychologist told her that a boy’s being in the middle of a conflict between two women is a tragic situation. He is torn between trying to please both women. She attributed Bill Clinton’s weakness to the deaths of his father, of his mother, and of Vincent Foster. She defended her husband as a very, very good man, but one who needs to work on his weaknesses. She also blamed the vast right-wing conspiracy for many of his difficulties.
When we begin to fault others for our failures, we have then fallen for one of Satan’s oldest tricks called the blame game! Oh me!
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞What a shame when people fall for the blame game. Remember, it’s a lot easier just to confess it than to blame others.
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