"Shamed and Blamed" -2

"Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil." (Psalms 40:14) Interesting enough, but I think God did take some of the blame, for He included Himself in part of that curse handed down to the serpent; however, His blame stops at the door of the creation of man, having created man with the free will to choose right from wrong, which He only did so that man would choose to love Him. As far as the shame goes, oh my goodness, what shame Jesus endured at the cross; He was not guilty of anything more than showing us the Father, yet He was put to death as if He broken every sin that there was. It is one thing to be tortured and killed for something that you have done, but to be tortured and killed for what others have done, that is the height of humiliation. Did not Jesus also take the blame along with the shame? I am pretty sure that He did; as a matter of fact, He asked the Father to forgive them, saying, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." He bore the sins of the whole world on that cross, which pretty much means that He took the blame for all of us, that we could be found not guilty before God the Father; set free from sin, because Jesus took that sin upon Himself in our place. Now we have something of a new man that has been created, and there is a new door that has been established where the blame is stopped; this new man has been set free from sin and the bondage of the law, so that this new door is that of grace, and if we fail to endure through His free grace that has been given to each and every one of us, we have no one to blame but ourselves... "For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. Wherefore henceforth know we know man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more. Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given us the ministry of reconciliation; to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation." (2 Corinthians 5:14-19)