Today's Devotional Written By A Young Woman Who Does Not Hide From Truth But Embraces It: Tracy Koweh
The Buck Stops Here
2 Corinthians 5:10 (Amplified Bible)
10For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering [a]what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has [b]achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing].
Today's message in the music comes from Vanilli Milli's song "Blame it On the Rain". The line I want to focus on today is: Whatever you do don't put the blame on you. Some of us have taken this principle into our spiritual lives and it is killing not only ourselves, but our families, our children, our witness, our communities and our destinies.
I recently had a conversation with a beautiful plus size young lady (will explain size reference in a moment). She is currently in a very unhealthy and emotionally abusive relationship with a college football star. I've only known this couple for a short time but the amount of ups and downs they have had has been mind blowing.. It’s normal for him to cheat on her, emotionally abuse her, lie to her and then say "I'm sorry" and all is well again.
Well, this last incident I just knew would open her eyes. He flat out told her he wanted to be with another girl, one that he had been "kicking" it with on campus. She was devastated, depression and down to her lowest point- - - -this was just last week. Well, Sat night I felt led to make contact to check on her since I hadn't heard anything from her in a few days, and that’s when she happily informed me he had apologized and they were back together. What was wrong with her? What was missing in her spirit to think this was a good thing? Was it her curves that caused her to believe she would not find better.
Well, my response to her caused her to become silent, which was okay with me. I told her that at this point I no longer could blame him, that it was now on her. Whatever pain he caused her next is her own fault. She is setting the standard and sending the message to him that no matter what you do to me, say sorry and we can start over. They are not married, engaged or parents, so she is completely free to walk away and do better but she won't. She can't look at the mirror and take the blame for all that she is going through because right now she is enjoying the temporary bliss of the honeymoon phase.
So many times in our lives, we allow ourselves to be involved in dysfunctional cycles that hinder our growth, maturity, peace, happiness and prosperity and it’s our own fault. We want to blame God, satan, society, the man, and everybody else, but God is calling us all to the mirror of truth. Its time out for blaming ALL of our shortcomings, situations, circumstances and downfalls on the rest of the world, and its time for us to stand and be judged by the Father. Its time to confess, so he can correct and change our cycles. Today declare that the buck stops here, and take responsibility for your words, actions and choices.
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