Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Have you ever been somewhere fun, where you're having a great time, and you can't imagine how things could be any better?

Everything is almost perfect, and you want your fun to last forever.

Now: have you ever been in the middle of this perfect scenario, and someone ruins the whole thing? Messes it all up? Did the Mexican hat dance all over your good time?

It sucks even WORSE when no one can pinpoint who exactly it was who messed up the whole thing. Therefore, the whole group of people who were having a practically perfect in every way time, you included, get dragged down with the troublemaker.

This ever happened to you before? Where you get to carry a piece of the blame for someone else's wrong doing?

It happened to me this weekend...and let me say, it isn't fun. When you're one of the ones whose done EVERYTHING right, but you still have to take the blame and get in trouble. But we've all experienced this to some extent. I'm sure you all can agree with me how NOT fun it is.

Well I didn't really realize it until today, this kind of not-fun scenario is exactly what Jesus did for us on the Cross. Except it was a MILLION TIMES intensified. First, God created the garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve resided in complete perfection with God. Can you imagine? Living in a GARDEN with GOD!!!!! How cool! Anyway, then Satan decided to ruin everything and tempt Eve, who tempted Adam, who messed everything up for all of us. Then everything started spiraling out of control...mankind was doomed to forever be born with a sinful nature.

Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years later, Jesus came to the Earth. Lived a sinless life. Was perfect in every way. Fully God, yet fully man. Perfect Lamb without blemish or defect. And what'd he do? He took the BLAME for EVERYONE'S SINS! Not just for the people alive then, but for EVERYONE who will EVER live! If you ask me, that's a TON of blame all for one person to take. But he took it, because he loves us. He didn't do anything wrong, and yet he was scorned, beaten, mocked, and killed.

Good thing the story doesn't end there though :) On the third day HE ROSE! We serve a Risen God who took away our blame and made us clean with the blood of His son Jesus!

So next time someone else drags you down, before you start pointing fingers and assessing blame, remember the blame that Jesus Christ took for us on the cross...bet it'll make you think twice about things. It sure did for me.



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