I have always felt that you need to take responsibility for your actions, good or bad. If something good happens, own up to it. If you did it or didn’t do it, it’s on you. I have never in my life had much respect for someone who says “it’s not my fault”. I have always gone back to the person and said “well, whose fault is it?” Of course they can’t answer because the answer would go back on them. Or if they do answer they’ll say they don’t know but it’s not theirs. Bull pucky.
Everything that happens only happens because someone or something did something to cause something to happen. (Great sentence, huh?)d. Yes, I agree there are things that happen that you have no control over like a tree falling over and landing on your tractor. You had no control of the tree but you did have control over where you parked the tractor. Thank goodness no one was hurt and there wasn’t much damage.
Something that infuriates me is when the story of Adam and Eve is told and Adam immediately looks around and says, “she made me do it”. Of course, blame the woman. She can take it. But then, of course, Eve turns around and blames the snake, because she’s not to blame. The snake is the only one who mans up. He doesn’t say, well Satan took over my body and started the whole thing. No, the snake takes his punishment and moves on. Adam and Eve probably spend the rest of their days whining about the situation.
Okay Adam. You could have been the super hero for all eternity if you hadn’t taken a bite of the apple. No one forced you. She handed it to you, not fed it to you. So, that is all on you. I’m sure that God does not like a tattle tale but we know for sure that God did not want you eating from that tree. Maybe it would have been better if you had just walked away.
And Eve, why in the world would you have been hanging with the wrong crowd, and listening to what the crowd told you to do? Why couldn’t you have been your own person and resisted what you were being told? Did you spend the rest of your days being influenced by every low life that came along?
I am lucky in that it is very seldom that my significant other blames me for anything being wrong. He may think it but he usually doesn’t place the blame on me. There are times though that he should. There are times that I have to stop myself and own up to being in the wrong. I know that. But one thing you will never see me do is immediately say that it was not my fault. There are times at work when I have done something wrong and I accept the blame. But I will work myself to death to find out why I did the wrong thing. I usually don’t do that so I can go back and relinquish blame, but rather to figure out what went wrong so that I don’t do it again. I will make sure to go back and let everyone know why I did something wrong.
I don’t know what I would have done in the garden if I had been in Eve’s spot. Probably the exact same thing that she did. But I know that when the Lord showed up I don’t think I would have been hiding. First, I’m not worried about being naked. But I think I would have stood up and told the Lord that it was me. I mean, Eve was already caught, why not accept the blame? But then I would have explained what the snake did. I would have explained why I did the thing I wasn’t supposed to do for all eternity. I wouldn’t have whined about it. I would have fessed right up, and then tucked my tail and gone off and sulked. I will take the blame for whatever I did. But I really hate being wrong.
