Most us do not like to take the blame for our own sins. We want to put it off on someone else, we want to say "Everyone else was doing it" or "No one can understand how I feel. No on else has ever been tempted this way." Sometimes we may say, "The temptation was just too much for me. I could never have gotten away anyway." But do you know that God doesn't leave us the option of playing the blame game? For one thing, look at what James says to us. Out sins and evil desires come right out of our own sin nature. Yesterday, we learned who us tethered to temptation-Satan himself. Now here is another though to chew on. We also have to recognize that temptation is customized to our vulnerabilities or weaknesses. Satan plays up the evil desires that are in each of us, and makes up custom "fishing lures" that appeal to our own personal weak points. Oh, yes, he does all he can to snare us, but that doesn't alter the fact that we are the ones who bite the hook. We are all responsible for our own sins.
In order to accept responsibility you have to see sin for what it is. How would you define sin? Take a minute to confess the sins that God brings to your mind.
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