The Blame Game

Is there anything you’re blaming others for in your life? 

-Are you blaming the economy for not getting the job you wanted? 

-Your parents for giving you “bad” genes? 

-Your boss for your workload? 

-Your Pastor for the problems God hasn't fixed?

-The world for lack of opportunities around you? 

-God for not giving you the life of your dreams?

The extent to which you live your life depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for your life.  When you blame someone/something for what you’re going through, you deny responsibility and give others power over that part of your life. 

For example, if you blame others for your problem or addiction, you’ll continue to remain in that place because in your mind they are the reason why you’re there.  You’ll never have the power to change the situation until you take responsibility for it.  When you take 100% responsibility for your life, be it your career status, your health, your relationship status, your finances, your friendships, or whatever that’s when you’re set to achieve the life you were expecting and have the faith that you can accomplish it.

Playing the blame game will never relieve you of your responsibility to God, to others, and especially to yourself. I have said it many times on this blog and in my messages-life isn't fair. Things happen that we can't prevent. We lose loved ones, friends, pets, jobs, positions, and other things that are important to us. It wasn't by luck or chance and blaming God, others, or yourself doesn't change that fact. Stuff just happens!

So instead of playing the blame game, read this passage from the Word and take hold of your responsibility and do what you should do to live the life that you expect to live.

Philippians 2:13-16 "For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: hat ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither labored in vain."