No longer Damned-The Blame Game is Over

Revelation 22:3

If you grew up with brothers or sisters, and you happen to be the youngest, you may understand that the youngest got blamed for most everything that got broken, or did not meet the parent’s approval.  I’m not saying that those accusations were always wrong, but the fact still holds true, that in my house my brother or sister would point the accusing finger at me, and say, “Bobby did it.”  Most of the time they were correct in doing so.  It’s bad when you’re the youngest because the only thing you had to blame was the dog, and mother never bought into that tall tale.  I often joked with the guys at work, that it was no fun getting caught in a mistake, because we did not have our wives there to blame.  It seems from the beginning, man has been good at trying to pass on the blame for his actions, and many of us never stop to understand that it is not an act of God but of Satan. 

From the beginning of man, Satan has been the one making accusations before God about our performance and the intent of our hearts, Revelation 12:10 gives clarity to what he has been doing behind the scenes; “Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.  For the accuser of our brothers who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.”  No one likes a person to always be telling him or her about someone messing up, and that is especially true, when you understand that the accuser is not telling the truth, and it is particularly true when the one being accused is your child. 

Folks, that is what has been happening all our lives on earth, and the enemy speaks to us in a voice that sounds like our voice in our mind, and he tells you; your not good enough, not smart enough, and the world would be better off without you, and if that does not work, he tells you that you deserve better, that you have no need of anyone, and as the thoughts come into your mind, that same enemy is standing before God, saying, look at that no good Bob, Bill, Sue or Mary, they are trying to live this life without You.  The angel is telling John that no longer will we be accused, “No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.” (Revelation 22:3)

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice