Kerr's Korner
Who Is Responsible?
By John Kerr
The fires in Los Angeles headlined most of the news last week. It may well continue to be the headline as you are reading this. The devastation goes way beyond what cameras and televisions can portray. Why did this happen? How did this happen? Why wasn’t someone prepared to stop it?
Now the “blame game” kicks into high gear. Who is at fault here? The local politicians blame the fire chief. The fire chief thinks she will probably get fired (no pun intended here) because she blamed the mayor on national television. They had a video of a mother insistently blaming the governor as he stood by a large black SUV. He informed this poor woman that he was commiserating with her and had the President on the phone at that very moment. The governor blamed the local officials. The populace blamed everybody.
I am reminded of Harry Truman’s famous motto, “the buck stops here” — which was inscribed on a thirteen-inch sign that sat on his Oval Office desk. That is quite a saying for the man who gave the orders to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. He did accept responsibility for that decision.
People like to blame Adam and Eve for sin in this world. They did sin and get ejected from the Garden of Eden, but Paul says all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. If we were the first people, then we would have been the first to sin. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—.
By God’s grace the One who never sinned took the blame for our sin when he was nailed to the cross. In turn he gave us his righteousness. II Corinthians 5:21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
By John Kerr
The fires in Los Angeles headlined most of the news last week. It may well continue to be the headline as you are reading this. The devastation goes way beyond what cameras and televisions can portray. Why did this happen? How did this happen? Why wasn’t someone prepared to stop it?
Now the “blame game” kicks into high gear. Who is at fault here? The local politicians blame the fire chief. The fire chief thinks she will probably get fired (no pun intended here) because she blamed the mayor on national television. They had a video of a mother insistently blaming the governor as he stood by a large black SUV. He informed this poor woman that he was commiserating with her and had the President on the phone at that very moment. The governor blamed the local officials. The populace blamed everybody.
I am reminded of Harry Truman’s famous motto, “the buck stops here” — which was inscribed on a thirteen-inch sign that sat on his Oval Office desk. That is quite a saying for the man who gave the orders to drop the atomic bombs on Japan. He did accept responsibility for that decision.
People like to blame Adam and Eve for sin in this world. They did sin and get ejected from the Garden of Eden, but Paul says all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. If we were the first people, then we would have been the first to sin. Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned—.
By God’s grace the One who never sinned took the blame for our sin when he was nailed to the cross. In turn he gave us his righteousness. II Corinthians 5:21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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