It's Not My Fault

It’s somebody else’s fault. This seems to be the cry of our society. A great example of this occurred in a recent court appeal where a New Jersey worker claimed that breathing a co-worker's perfume one day in 2004 had made her permanently disabled and tethered to an oxygen tank. The appeal was filled when the lower court had dismissed her claim by deciding that it was far more likely that her disability was caused by her 43-year, pack-a-day cigarette habit. Like this woman has done, it is often far easier to blame others for problems than look at ourselves. Parents, teachers, the system all become the controllers of our life, never ourselves. But God will judge us not what everyone else does but what we do. Romans 14:10-12 tells us, “But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God .For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD." So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.