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Passing the Blame

Passing the blame - something that comes so naturally to us. Why is this? Why is it that if someone else is even marginally involved with the same project as you and when something goes wrong or is off - our first instinct and tendency is to pass the blame. However in the same scenario when something positive happens, it was our idea or thought that provide the positive result. The most obvious place I see it is with kids or teenagers. Lately I have been seeing it more and more in myself - a 28 year old young adult and I the nagging question that I have been trying to answer - 'why do I jump to this tendency/habit'. Why do I quickly search to pass the blame to a 'weaker' target? During my personal devotionals the past few weeks, I have been studying/reading through Hosea. Hosea was a prophet who married a prostitute. His love and devotion to his wife was symbolic to the relationship between God and Israel at this time. Israel as a nation had been unfaithful - prostitu