Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 1 (TMF:2303)

Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Peace to Live By: Responsibility for Our Characters, Part 1 (TMF:2303) - Daniel Litton
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       It is the oldest game in the book—blaming someone else or something else when something goes wrong. Remember? That’s what Adam did the first time he sinned. He blamed Eve. He didn’t take responsibility. Recently, I watching a pastor prepare to give a sermon at highly esteemed church in the evangelical world. He was reading over the passage of Scripture and thought he lost his place. So what did he do? Did he take responsibility? Even in this minor infraction, the pastor blamed the reason on the fact he had just purchased a new Bible. It kind of bothered me while I was listening to his sermon. I thought, “How much pride that one cannot even take responsibility for something so small?” I know, I am being nit picky here. But my overarching point is that I am trying to show that it’s important for us to take responsibility. We are all responsible for our own characters. That’s the simple truth. Yet, neither you nor I have lived up to this ideal. We’ve all failed in both small and large ways. In the same breath, I’m not saying that every time something goes wrong that we are at fault.