Blame! One Word Sermons

Introduction to this one word sermon which used to be my specialty appears to be written obviously before things have started to settle down just a little bit although they still look pretty wild and the sermon still applies. You're welcome, America

God was walking through the garden. Adam and Eve were hiding. They had sinned, missed the mark, disobeyed, and did the one and the ONLY thing God had instructed them and warned them NOT to do. Eat of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. They were in a hurry to grow up. So they both ate and death entered into the story. Is this the end of the story? 

Not yet. Guilt came hammering down in their newly awakened hearts like a mechanical pile driver. Overwhelmed by this new experience of guilt, shame, and fear, they realized they were naked and quickly innovated  sewing fig leaves together to cover themselves. When they heard the sound of their heavenly Father strolling the Garden, their pile driver guilt hammered their heart again, and in terror, they hid.

I'll cut to the chase on this compelling saga. What happened next is still echoing the halls of cicilation millineau later. BLAME! Blame. blame

The man said The Woman Whom THOU gavest me, SHE gave to eat. The woman The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. The serpemt mumbled under his breath, I thought these clowns You created would mess up.

See how this all supposed falls back on God. Hmmm.

Civilization is still blaming God... for everything! Imperfect Churches. Flawed pastor. Hypocritical leaders. Double minded men in a hurry to get ahead. Silly or angry or lonely women. Troubled, destructive  children. 

Every where people are lifting the middle finger up to a supposedly distant God. Ungrateful when things are going right, they are nervously worrying, waiting for things to go bad, letting fear suck the joy out of their lives.

This is both a sermon and a confession. The mistakes that I list are also my confession for I too have blamed others and also God for my mistakes and my failures.  

Now our political arena is so heated  that it appears like it will explode. Each side blames the other for the slowness of progress out of the morass of problems we have found ourselves in. Rising violence and prices, eroding values.

Stay tuned.  We'll continue later.