Blame Game

(Pro 19:3 KJV)  The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

Moffett again has an interesting interpretation.

“A man’s own folly ruins his affairs —
Then he gets angry with the Eternal!”

Think of the times you’ve been walking down a street or sidewalk and you either trip or stub your toe.  What I usually do is turn around and glare at the ground to see what the ground did to make me look like a klutz.  Most of the time I can’t find anything unusual, and if I am being honest with myself, I admit I did it.  Too often in life we are only looking for other people to blame and God seems to be a good target.

There are times when God puts difficult times in front of us, so that we can grow.  I think that most of the difficulty we have, though, comes because of our own folly.

So?  It always helps if we work on being honest with ourselves and honest with God.  It’s pointless trying to cover things with God and will help us to be honest with Him if we don’t try to cover them up to ourselves.