It’s Not My Fault, I Didn’t Know Any Better!

A young man in a class I was teaching cussed incessantly throughout the classtime. I asked him to please refrain from such language and his response was that one that has become so common in our world: “I can’t help it. It’s not my fault. If you were raised in my house with the parents I have, you would be the same way.”

Certainly, my heart goes out to this young man and so many others raised in terrible situations. I feel sad for them and the hurt they are suffering through. However, continuing to blame others for who you’ve become rather than distancing one’s self from the cycle of bad behavior is without excuse. Continuing that cycle by becoming another home that destroys another generation is without excuse. Our society is wreaked with that mindset as we see the rebellion going on in the streets; the crimes and savagery of our younger generation is appalling.

We are also without excuse when it comes down to our understanding of GOD. We like to blame others, including GOD, for who we are and what we have become. Fact is, our society has drifted overtly into such a pattern of thinking and the lives people are living are the evidence to prove so. The idea that “I didn’t know any better!” or “I can’t help how I’ve turned out!” or “My parents made me this way!” is without excuse and the society we now find ourselves in is the direct result of that mindset.