Blaming God for Our Mistakes

Well, here I am, back at my computer, writing a post for my blog.
Has it really been two months since my last one?
Wow.

I've been through an interesting patch with God, a few ups and downs, but he has still been doing amazing things. I guess I just haven't been making the time to write them down. Instead, I've been working on all kinds of other things, and creating blog-novels with one of my friends (very random, beware!!! Read them here).

Organising myself to do things has actually been the hardest part of my life lately. I don't know why.
God keeps providing me with opportunities both to serve him and to do something worthwhile in my life, but I tend to overlook them, or forget to do them until its too late.

Why is this happening?
Because I am choosing to not make the time, to decide what is important and do it.

The funny things about people is that it is so hard to admit that. It has taken me a long time to get to that point, to be able to say that I am at fault. Instead, we try to blame other people, or God, even if we don't believe in Him.

Strangely, thats what I have been doing.

God presents me with an opportunity (lets say, a chance to have a song recorded) and has a timeframe to accomplish it in. I sit around for the two weeks (or more) I have to complete this, all the time thinking to myself "Yes, I have to do this," and then try and accomplish it in the last possible minute, when there is really too little time to make a good job of anything.

So I fail. And then, somehow, I find some way to blame God!

'God, why didn't you give me enough time?!' (well, actually, he gave me two or more weeks)
'God, why didn't you give me the equipment?!' (He did, but I didn't take the time to make sure it was working)
'God, how could you let me fail?!' (Who let me fail? I did)

But isn't that the way we so often are? 'God, why don't you do this for me? How can you be so uncaring? Why haven't I had my way?' We try to get the good stuff out of opportunities, without putting in the work necessary, and then blame God when we fail.

God loves us, and wants the best for us in our lives. Why do we blame Him when we make a mess of things?

Just something to think about.