Blame Game

BLAME GAMEWe have reached the point in our day that people don't want to accept personal responsibility for their actions. The mantra is, "If I did something wrong, someone else caused it!" Note the poem by Anna Russell entitled, "Psychiatric Folk Song.""I went to my psychiatristTo be psychoanalyzedTo find out why I killed the catAnd blackened my husband's eyes."He laid me on a downy couchTo see what He could find,And here's what he dredged up,From my subconscious mind."When I was one, my mummyHid my dolly in a trunkAnd so it follows, naturally,That I am always drunk."When I was two, I saw my fatherKiss the maid one day,And that is why I suffer fromKleptomania!"At three I had a feeling ofAmbivalence towards my brothersAnd so it follows naturally,I poisoned all my lovers."But I am happy now I have learnedThe lessons this has taughtEverything I do that's wrong,Is someone else's fault."Doesn't that sound like our generation? The Bible says that each person shall answer for his or her own sins. If we confess those sins, God is faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). As long as we deny our sins, we have no hope of forgiveness.Dr. J. Mike MinnixEditorPastorLife