Daily Doctrine
by K Neill Foster
for May 18, 2012
| The Unpassable Buck |
The Unpassable Buck
Text: "The man said, 'The woman you put here with me--she gave me some fruit of the tree, and I ate it.'". . . "The woman said, 'The serpent deceived me, and I ate.'" Genesis 3:12-13
Avoiding responsibility is a very human trait. Even Adam had someone to blame for his sin--his wife. Notice what Adam says about Eve--God had "put" her there, not "given" her to him as the King James Version asserts. There is the hint at least that Adam might have disowned Eve if he could have escaped his punishment. But alas, he had sinned with his eyes wide open.
In Eve's case, she also found someone to blame--the serpent. But Eve at least admits she was beguiled and deceived. She comes across as the stronger in admission of guilt--something that no one, including Adam, wants to do. That is to her credit.
How many times have you played the blame game recently?
When man, i.e., Adam and Eve, fell into sin, indescribable calamity entered the human race. If you know the Gospel, you know that Jesus came into the world to redeem us from Adam's curse. That redemptive activity is still flourishing in the entire world today. There is hardly a place anywhere on the globe where Jesus Christ is not cancelling out and undoing the curse of Adam's fall.
On the coming judgment day, lame or blame excuses will not do. The buck will be "unpassable." Now is the time to directly admit sin and guilt and then to plunge into the redeeming flow of Jesus' precious blood.