The Blame Game

Genesis 3:12-13

As men and women of this world, we are often rather good at the 'Blame Game'. We often have an excuse - or even better, someone to blame - why we did or did not do as we did.

But all our choices have repercussions, some even extend beyond our reach and knowledge.

Children see this in us and imitate us. And we as their parents or teachers correct them, but seldom reflect back in our own lives. Yet Paul writes in his first letter to the Corinthians: "When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me." (1 Cor. 13:11, NIV)

It is time for us to grow up and face the music. When we do, we can meet God without the need to hide (Gen 3:10). And our children as well as those we meet will see the change in us, hopefully imitating us. Then we have a chance to stop The Blame Game.