Own Your Sin To Be Blameless!

Sin causes us to avoid or even to be fearful of intimacy in relationships.  Our relationship with God is dependent upon our ability to face our fears and see our sin for what it is-- destructive and disruptive to true intimacy.

 Sin produces avoidance behavior in our relationships.  

All we like sheep have gone astray, 
we've turned everyone to his own way....

When sin was first conceived in the garden, Adam and Eve turned to their own way.  They saw their own way as better than the confines of God's commands that were meant to protect their innocence.

The LORD God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.  But the LORD God warned him, "You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."  

Once they had disobeyed God, Adam and Eve tried to avoid being seen by God because of the  knowledge that they now possessed of their own evil hearts.

 When God began to question them they immediately shifted blame.

"Who told you that you were naked?  Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?"  

The man said, 
"The woman whom you gave to be with me, 
she gave me the fruit of the tree, and I ate.  

Did you see what he did there?  He not only shifted blame to the woman but ultimately he blamed God for giving him the woman!

Romans 1:20 
For ever since the world was created, 
people have seen the earth and sky.  
Through everything God made,
 they can clearly see his invisible qualities-- 
his eternal power and divine nature.  
So they have no excuse for not knowing God.  

Adam was without excuse!  He knew better than to blame God!  When he was given a wife he was given a good thing.  When God saw that it was not good for Adam to be alone he made him a helper fit for him.

1 Timothy 2:24 shows that Adam was not deceived like Eve was.

And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan.  
The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.  

Eve knew she had been deceived but still shifted blame.  Notice when God asked her what she did she didn't answer His question but immediately tried to save face.

"The serpent deceived me, and I ate."    

We are always trying to save face in our relationships.  We constantly want to blame someone else for  what may very well be our own fault.  We look at other's flaws and faults instead of dealing with our own sinful hearts before the Lord.  We too are deceived when we view someone else's sin as worse than our own.

God was not to blame in the garden and He is not to blame in our own lives and relationships or lack there of.  His plan for us from the foundation of the world was for good.  His intentions for the lives of his people were very good, as He placed them in the garden of Eden with everything they could ever possibly need.  He is the same yesterday, today and forever!

Ephesians 1:3-10
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing 
in the heavenly places, even as he chose us 
in him before the foundation of the world, 
that we should be holy and blameless before him.  
In love he predestined us for adoption 
as sons through Jesus Christ, 
according to the purpose of his will, 
to the praise of his glorious grace, 
with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.  
In him we have redemption through his blood, 
the forgiveness of our trespasses, 
according to the riches of his grace, 
which he lavished upon us, 
in all wisdom and insight making known to us 
the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, 
which he set forth in Christ 
as a plan for the fullness of time, 
to unite all things in him, 
things in heaven and things on earth.  

So as a response to His goodness, let us throw caution to the wind and come face to face with the knowledge of our own evil sinful hearts and not avoid true intimacy with God, whose desire is for us to be  reconciled with him and all things on earth.

This is good news!  We no longer need to shift blame but as we own it He takes it upon Himself!

Abba, forgive us for always wanting to shift the blame onto someone else.  We thank you Jesus that you were and are the  ultimate scape goat!  Thank you that as we come to You Father and face you with the knowledge of our sin that You take them permanently off of our record of wrongs by the justifying work found only in the blood of the spotless lamb!

Psalm 103:11-12
For his unfailing love towards those who fear Him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.  He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.  


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