Week 1 – Blame Game

 

Godly Attitude – Week 1

“Blame Game Stops Here”

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

We begin in the Garden…..Genesis 3:9-13 (Amplified Bible)

⁹But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?  ¹⁰He said, I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.   ¹¹And He said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat? ¹²And the man said, the woman whom you gave to be with me–she gave me [fruit] from the tree, and I ate. ¹³And the Lord God said to the woman, what is this you have done? And the woman said, the serpent beguiled (cheated, outwitted, and deceived) me, and I ate.

Blaming others:

1. It’s just so easy!
2. Who me? 
3. It must have been the explanation; a misunderstanding; bad instructions; etc, etc, etc

Ah, the Lovers of trouble!!!!…..1 Timothy 6:4 (Amplified Bible)

⁴He is puffed up with pride and stupefied with conceit, [although he is] woefully ignorant. He has a ^[a]morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions,

Christian knowledge does not replace respect for others.

“None of your beeswax”…John 21:20-23 (Amplified Bible)

²⁰But Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved, following–the one who also had leaned back on His breast at the supper and had said, Lord, who is it that is going to betray You? ²¹When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, Lord, what about this man? ²²Jesus said to him, If I want him to stay (survive, live) until I come, what is that to you? [What concern is it of yours?] You follow Me!²³So word went out among the brethren that this disciple was not going to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but, If I want him to stay (survive, live) till I come, what is that to you?

1. What’s it to you?
2. What is God doing with you? Figure that out, focus on that!

Worrying about others isn’t your job. Helping them is!