This sermon is a testimony about my daughter’s first year of life and mine and wife’s struggle that first year. My daughter Delaney is a special needs adult and in 1999 my wife Dana had an accident one month after Delaney was born. We all blame things for the reason we struggle at times. I hope as you listen to this sermon/testimony you will realize that we don’t always understand why things happen and there isn’t always someone to blame. But know that God is always in control and He knows exactly what He is doing.

The Blame Game

Genesis 3:1-13

Blame Ourselves

• Isaiah 6:5, So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”
  • When we blame ourselves, we judge ourselves, just like when we judge others.
• Romans 2:1-5, “Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whoever you are who judge, for in whatever you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 2 But we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things.  3 And do you think this, O man, you who judge those practicing such things, and doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?  4 Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?  5 But in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart you are treasuring (or storing) up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,”
  • Blaming ourselves is not always a bad thing.
  • A lot of the time we are at fault.
  • The choices we make cause us to be in the situation we are currently in.
  • But sometimes we beat ourselves up for things we have no control over and brings us down and causes us to miss God’s blessing.

Blame Others:

• The bible is full of examples of blaming others
• Children of Israel blame Moses
  • Numbers 20:5, “And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.”
• Disciples blame the family
  • John 9:1-2, “Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Blame God:

• Genesis 3:12, The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
• Proverbs 19:3, “A person’s own foolishness leads him astray, yet his heart rages against the Lord.”
• Romans 9:20, “On the contrary, who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

• Who are you blaming?
• Are you still blaming others for the situations that you’re in?
  • Is it someone else’s fault that your life isn’t where you want it to be?
• Maybe you’re living with so much self-blame that you think you don’t deserve the gift of eternal life that Christ gives.
  • It says in Romans that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, that’s you, that’s me, that everyone in this room.
  • So quit beating yourself up.
  • He came that we might have life more abundantly through Him.
• Maybe you blame God for the turmoil that’s going in your life.
  • I have heard it said that “Some people create their own storms and then get upset when it rains.”
  • Funny thing about storms in our lives, God can send the rain to wash all the blame away.
    • So quit blaming God.
    • Quit blaming yourself and others and allow him to wash away your sins.
    • Allow Him to carry it all.
    • Do it now before you miss the blessing that He’s trying to give you.
  • DON’T MISS IT!