Dissociative from Child Abuse - Blame and Responsibility
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| Who is to Blame for Your Illness? |
But today I am thinking about a different side of blame and responsibility...
How often is the person who is taking the "medication" or healing from "mental illness" the easy one to blame? You know the way she is... is her medication right... she struggles for the right words.... just wait the storm will pass... she doesn't mean what she said... it just must be one of her bad days...
And the list of blaming, excusing, even accusing, statements go on and on.
Maybe it is time for all of us to take a sharp look at conflict... to examine the cycle...
Take responsibility for your own mind, will, emotions.... allow the Spirit of God to examine these parts of your heart. Are you going to be found pure? Do you have any sinful responsibility in the situations that you find yourself? The response of others, you can't control that... but how do you respond?
Many people can't control their own response but that doesn't elevate the penalty of sin. Are you saved by faith in Jesus Christ? Is He your Lord? Are you yielded, following Him with your body, soul and spirit?
Oh, it is too hard! You can't be real. You really expect me to be held responsible for my response, for my actions, for my inaction...
It is not I who holds you responsible. It is not my responsibility ... God created you. God set up the rules of life. God is the lawmaker and the judge. He determines the conditions, the rules, the answers. Are you yet of sick of what you have done to your life... your choices, your "must haves", your ways of intoxicating the pain?
Stop looking for someone to blame. Stop making excuses. It just might be you who has to change.
Look in the mirror! Talk to God, and listen. This is not a cheap, easy catch-all answer. God is REAL! Run to Him!
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