Dave Edlers Ramblings

In Young Life we used to do a play every year at camp called “Broken Heart”. It followed the life of a young man or woman depending on who played the part through their life to the place where Christ was revealed to them and they received him. It was powerful because most of the kids and adults could relate to what had happened and the decisions made by the main character. One of that characters biggest hang ups was the rod of blame. The devil character would give her this “toy” he called it called the rod of blame. She could blame everything that was wrong in her life on someone else. It was “their fault.”
Today in the life journal we read of the Old Testament sacrifice of the scapegoat. Our sin placed on the head of a goat. Actually there are two goats, one is sacrificed and the other taken to the edge of the wilderness and released to take our sins out into the wilderness. Did you catch that “our sins”. The scapegoat is taking “our sins”. Our blame is placed on another.
We play the blame game. It’s not our fault, someone else is to blame for what has happened to us. If they had, or he had, or she had, and we go on and on. Freedom comes when you stop the blame game and confess your sin, putting it firmly on the head of the one who came to take it away. Jesus.