“A person’s own folly
leads to their ruin,
yet their heart rages against the Lord.”
Proverbs 19:3
Have you ever blamed
God for a situation you put yourself in?
I would guess most
all of us have.
We move quickly to do
something we never heard God tell us to do and when it fails to prosper we
start complaining to God!
These are all things
we might say in the midst of our self-inflicted trouble:
“Woe is me.
Why is this happening
to me.
God, it’s all your
fault.
I was only doing what
you told me to do.”
These aren’t even
original complaints.
We have read a
similar indictment against God being spoken by Adam way back in the Garden…
“The man said, “The
woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
Genesis 3:12
“It’s as if he were
saying – “See God, I’m not really to blame – you are!”
We are such copy cats
aren’t we?
So how do we know
when it’s our own fault?
Look at today’s verse
again.
The fruit of our own folly
is ruin.
That is not the fruit
of a life obedient to God.
We know that His
plans and His purposes for us ae good.
They do not lead to our
ruin.
The next time you are
tempted to lift a fist toward heaven and rage toward God look back at what His
direction was.
Did He truly lead
you?
If it is leading to
your ruin the honest answer has to be no!
The good news is He
can redeem your life from destruction – even the destruction you set in motion –
when you repent and call upon His name.
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