{"id":6962,"date":"2025-11-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackaby.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/26\/taking-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:37:55","slug":"taking-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/2025\/11\/26\/taking-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam and Eve did everything they could to avoid taking responsibility for their sin. Adam blamed his wife: &#8220;<em>She<\/em> gave me of the tree.&#8221; He even pointed an accusing finger at God, saying it was &#8220;the woman, whom <em>You<\/em> gave me.&#8221; Eve blamed the serpent saying: &#8220;The <em>serpent<\/em> deceived me, and I ate.&#8221; God ignored their excuses and announced the judgment they would face as consequences for their disobedience.<\/p>\n<p>One of the dirges of mankind is that we refuse to take responsibility for our actions. We want to blame others for our problems: Our parents did not raise us well; our friends let us down; our pastor was not a good enough preacher; our children are rebellious; our employer is not sensitive enough; our spouse is not understanding; there is not enough time in the day . . . the excuses are plentiful! Yet forgiveness and restoration cannot happen until we accept full responsibility for our actions.<\/p>\n<p>An obvious indication that we have not genuinely repented is that we make excuses for our sinful behavior. Nowhere in Scripture does God excuse one person&#8217;s sin because of someone else&#8217;s actions. If we make a habit of blaming others for our failures, we will not reach a point of honest repentance. God will hold us accountable for our own actions, not others (2 Cor. 5:10). Strive always to acknowledge and take responsibility for your own sins. It will free you to receive God&#8217;s forgiveness and to press on to spiritual maturity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then the man said, &#8220;The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.&#8221;   Genesis 3:12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6962"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14643,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6962\/revisions\/14643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackabyleadership.org\/bmiapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}