EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES -- As offered by Adam for disobeying God (Genesis 3:12), The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate. -- As offered by Eve for disobeying God (Genesis 3:13), The serpent tricked me, and I ate. -- As offered by Lot for wanting to stay in doomed Sodom (Genesis19:19), I cannot flee to the hills, for fear the disaster will overtake me and I die. -- As offered by Moses for not wanting to go into Egypt (Exodus 3:11;4:1,10), Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? But suppose they do not believe me or listen to me. O my Lord, I have never been eloquent. -- As offered by Aaron for constructing the golden calf (Exodus 32:22-24), you know the people, that they are bent on evil. They said to me, Make us gods, who shall go before us ... I threw [the gold] into the fire, and out came this calf! -- As offered by 10 spies for not entering the Promised Land (Numbers 13:32-33), The land ... is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are of great size. ... and to ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them. -- As offered by Israel for wanting a king (1 Samuel 8:5), You [Samuel] are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations. -- As offered by Saul for assuming priestly duties (1 Samuel13:11-12), When I saw that the people were slipping away from me, and that you [Samuel] did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines were mustering at Michmash ... and I have not entreated the favor of the LORD; so I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering. -- As offered by Saul for sparing an enemy God told him to destroy (1 Samuel 15:21), But from the spoil the people took sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal. -- As offered by Elijah for hiding in a cave (1 Kings 19:10), I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away. -- As offered by three invited guests for not attending a wedding (Luke 14:18-20), I have bought a piece of land, and I must go out and see it. I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out. I have just been married, and therefore I cannot come. -- As offered by an unfaithful servant for fruitless labor (Matthew 25:24-25), I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed; so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. -- As offered by Felix for not accepting Christ (Acts 24:25), Go away for the present; when I have an opportunity, I will send for you.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:10:33 +0000
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