As a parent, I’m sure we’ve all heard these words at sometime during our parenting lifetime. I know I have! Whether it’s your kids, your nieces and nephews or the kids of your friends, we’ve all had those words thrown back at us. What’s our first reaction?? I don’t care who started it! You’re both in trouble! Am I right?? 😀

As a parent of children that are older and out of the house now, I can still remember the frustration of hearing those words. The aggravation of wishing just once the one in the wrong would step up and be like, hey, it was me. I know. You parents are rolling on the floor laughing ain’t ya!

But think of those feelings just for a moment and think, “Does God ever feel that way about us?” Oh I am almost 99.9999999 percent sure He does. I can imagine that all of us at least once in our life has blamed our sin on someone or something else. I know He’s probably rolled His eyes at me quite a few times as I have handed the blame off a few times. But just like we, as parents, are, so is God. He doesn’t care who started it. 🙂

Remember Adam and Eve? Boy talk about playing the blame game. Adam was just a little brave in my opinion lol. He told God in Genesis 3:12 “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate”. Wow. He blamed Eve AND God! He told God “the woman You gave me made me do it”.

So what did Eve do? She blamed the serpent! Wow. God’s head was probably spinning with all the blame rolling around! Now don’t get me wrong, I would love to go ahead and blame Satan for all the sin in my life. But let’s face it, it’s ultimately our choice. Just as it was ultimately Adam and Eve’s choice. Look at the end of verse 12. Adam said “AND I ATE”. Hmm. Kinda sounds to me like he was in on some of the action too.

So back to how does God feel about it? Again, He doesn’t care who started it. He punished them all! He banished Adam and Eve from the garden and cursed the serpent! So you see, it doesn’t matter how or why the sin is presented. The fact is, when it’s presented, WE make the choice to commit that sin. So when the consequences of that sin come about, we only have ourselves to blame.

The point is we all have to own up to what we do. Good or bad it’s ours. Sometimes that can be hard to do. But the great and awesome thing about our Father?? Well, He is even more loving and compassionate than we are as parents. And if we can forgive our children when they mess up, just know that He is quicker to forgive and erase that sin from us if only we ask Him to.

Shoot, we will continue to bring up those wrongs. (Remember that one time when you were five?) But God wipes them completely away for good. Man, don’t we have an awesome Heavenly Father?

“As far as the East is from the West, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.” Psalms 103:12