Scott Anthony Gomez Jr. filed a lawsuit against jail officials in Pueblo County, Colorado alleging among other things that they failed to take security precautions to prevent him from escaping. He said that, after his first escape, he had told then-sheriff how lax security was, but that no "improvements" had been made. In the second attempt, He seriously injured himself when he fell 40 feet while scaling a wall. I do not know about you but a forty foot fall sounds like a serious preventative measure. But this man, like so many, falls under the mistake of blaming other for their wrongdoing. This is exactly what James warns about in chapter one verses thirteen thru fifteen of his book, “Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God"; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death." Whether it is our parents, authorities, or even God Himself that we blame for our sin, the responsibility lies in our own heart.
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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