TO BLAME OTHERS 1

It is truly a strange process we are apt to go through when caught in disobedience. The first thing we do is to start looking for someone to blame for our failure because we are convinced it was not due to something that was our fault and doing. Just like the Garden story:
“Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made. The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden, he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Genesis 2:8-9).

“But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden— except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)

Now a serpent (the devil) came along and told Eve:
“God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too” (Genesis 3:5-6)

Then the Lord God came along and asked them if they had eaten from the Tree that was forbidden.
The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”
Then the LORD God asked the woman, “What have you done?”
“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”
(Genesis 3:12-13)

Here’s the progression: the woman… you (God) gave me, and then the serpent. One, two, three.
(To be continued)

“Lead us not into temptation…” Jesus