Blame Someone Else - we all suffer from it. A post I read somewhere reminded me of that little acronym which I heard years ago. Interestingly it is incredibly biblical. Adam the first man to sin didn't admit it he blamed everyone but himself; "The woman you put here with me - she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it." And ever since we have followed the same pattern.
So when we get angry rather than confess to our sin we excuse it saying it was their fault for making me, or it was the result of a series of pressures and strains, or whatever. All the time we seek to excuse ourselves from taking any blame. We do the same with lust - the adverts are just so sensual, they should change what they wear...
The Bible doesn't allow us that luxury in fact it would bluntly tell us we are deluding ourselves and that 1 John 1:7 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."
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