Good vs. Evil Part 3: The Blame Game

So, whose fault was it?

Was it Eve’s, for being so stupid to fall for Satan’s lies?

Where was Adam anyway?  Why didn’t he intervene and stop Eve?

Ah, the Devil made them do it!

How about the ultimate blame shift: Evil is all God’s fault!

After all, God made Lucifer, and because He is all-knowing, He had to know that Lucifer would rebel and become Satan.

Therefore, evil is all God’s fault!

Over the last 20 plus years of counseling, I have had professing Christians express this judgment to me.

So, how do we handle this faulty reasoning?

We don’t.

What? Seriously, God doesn’t need us to be His defense lawyers.

Why?  He’s not on trial.

He is the Judge, NOT US!

Beloved, we completely lack the capacity to truly discern good from evil; only God knows the difference.

Here’s what we know: Adam and Eve’s choice to be like God put them in the same boat with Satan.

Lucifer wanted to be like God, and it got him kicked out of God’s presence.

There are philosophies out there today saying, “You are god; you just have to realize it.”

In their pride, people get sucked into that crazy, arrogant thinking.

God did not design us to have to discern good from evil.

He only wanted us to ever experience good.

I, for one, wish that I only ever had to experience good, don’t you?

That would be amazing!

Adam and Eve’s sinful choice left us starting out life at a deficit.

We need God, but sin caused us to born separated from Him.

God knew what Adam and Eve would choose, and He already had a rescue plan in place.

Love motivated God to send Jesus to die on the cross, pay the penalty for sin, once and for all, and to make a way for us to be reconnected to the Source of Life.

How?

Simply by acknowledging our sins and our inability to be good enough, by believing that Jesus’ blood was sufficient, and by receiving His gift of eternal life by faith.

Beloved, we can never be good enough.

But we don’t have to be; Jesus was good enough to pay our debt and redeem us.

Through His shed blood, we are now in a position to receive God’s love and acceptance every moment of every day!

And, we can now learn to experience life like God intended for us, as we put our trust in Him.

It’s time that we stop playing the blame game, and start accepting God’s sufficient grace to be more than enough for all that we need!

Blessings!

Robyn