What's Your Excuse
WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE?
In these days we are living in it seems everyone has an excuse for their actions.
As I sat watching people looting (stealing) out of stores and businesses, I heard many make the excuse they deserved the merchandise that they were taking. Also heard some say the business owners deserved to be robbed and vandalized because it was what the vandals wanted to do. I hear many politicians making excuse for their lack of decisions or excuses defending why they are pushing some immoral or ungodly piece of legislation.
We should not be surprised at these actions for man has been making excused for himself since the Garden of Eden. Then, it was some one else’s fault that they failed.
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Notice Adam blamed God and Eve then blamed the serpent (devil). We tend to blame someone else for our failures still today. But through out scripture man has made different excuses for disobedience and to try and keep from doing what they were supposed to do.
In Exodus 3:11 Moses argued with God that he was a nobody and therefore could not lead the children of Israel out of Egypt. Then, in Exodus 4;11 his excuse was that he couldn’t talk to people
In Proverbs 22:13 we are told the slothful man was afraid. In Jeremiah 1:6, Jeremiah says he could not speak because he was just a child. Then, in Matthew we are told by Jesus that those of that day did not meet the needs of others and they said they didn’t see a need.
Matthew 25:42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
You see all down through the ages it has been the same, man has had an excuse for everything. How many of those excuses were valid and would hold up in the court of God? I can tell you none, from Genesis till today. Excuses will never hold up but a reason will. I will tell you the reason for the riots and looting today, the disobedience in the Garden of Eden, Moses arguing with God and the slothful man. It is the same reason
for all these, it is the individual. I am the reason I fail the Lord, it is not the world or circumstances but it is me. But it seems not many are willing to admit that the “buck stops here” and take responsibility for their actions.
What’s your excuse?
Have a great day