The Reward of Excuses
by Maikh Etto
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse” – Anonymous.
Every excuse you make is accusing you of irresponsibility.
The tragedy of making excuses lies in the fact that an excuse maker will always be excused from achieving what he would have achieved. The excuses you manufacture makes you unfit for the reward of responsibility. It gives you a red card.
Excuses never started yesterday, they started way back in the Garden of Eden. When Adam and Eve disobeyed the Lord, He asked them if they had eaten of the forbidden fruit, but they both gave excuses. Adam said,
“The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me and I ate.”(NKJV). While Eve said,
“The serpent deceived me and I ate.” (NKJV).
The habit of making excuses is one of the manifestations of the fallen nature. Some people keep on blaming Eve for their predicaments because of what she did, but there’s something about them that suggests they wouldn’t have done better than she did – their excuses. Isn’t it a tragedy that a lot of people use the devil as an excuse for their personal failures just like Eve did? And some are also using the disobedience of the first humans on earth as an excuse for their own disobedience.
Whenever you make an excuse, there is something you’re accusing. Adam’s excuse accused Eve and the Lord. He said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me and I ate.” While Eve’s excuse accused the serpent.
Often, our excuses accuse time and the ‘circumstances beyond our control’, and this often seem be a justifiable excuse. But, the circumstances beyond our control are often the circumstances we ignored before they got out of control. The circumstances beyond our control are often the results of our not being in control. An excuse maker is simply acknowledging the fact that he is not in control.
No one can build his or her integrity on excuses. You can never excel with excuses. We can choose to dodge our responsibilities through excuses, but no matter how we try we cannot dodge the consequences of our excuses, neither can we dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
† Don’t find an excuse to do what you know is wrong.
† Don’t find excuses not to do what you know you ought to do.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in poverty.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in sin.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in dead formalism – a synonym for tradition.
† Don’t find an excuse to neglect your responsibilities.
† Don’t find an excuse for despising yourself.
† Don’t find an excuse to despise your abilities, because by doing so you’re despising your destiny. Don’t find an excuse not to fulfill your destiny.
† Don’t find an excuse not to worship your Creator. The Lord does not listen to excuses. He says, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man.” (Romans 2: 1, KJV). Excuses often appear to be right, but they never are. They often seem to bring relieve, but they never do.
† Excuses bring limitation.
† With excuses come dishonor and shame.
† Excuses encourage laziness.
† Excuses rob you of opportunities and bring about delays in your life.
† Excuses can make you fall out of favor.
† Never find excuses not to have a dream and live your dream. Never find an excuse to stop believing in your dream.
† Never find an excuse to accommodate what is not blessing you.
Excuses are the gateway to failure.
Make a determination to free your life from the consequences of excuses. The truth is, any time you make an excuse you’re telling a lie. “There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from the truth when he is to make an excuse.”(U. Z. Odum). Hosea 4:4 says,
“Don’t point your finger at someone and try to pass the blame!” (NLT).
Whenever we make excuses, we are passing the blame of our lack of responsibility to something or someone else. So, learn to stop making excuses for it carries no reward.
Copyright 2009 by Maikh Etto. All rights reserved.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in poverty.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in sin.
† Don’t find an excuse to be comfortable in dead formalism – a synonym for tradition.
† Don’t find an excuse to neglect your responsibilities.
† Don’t find an excuse for despising yourself.
† Don’t find an excuse to despise your abilities, because by doing so you’re despising your destiny. Don’t find an excuse not to fulfill your destiny.
† Don’t find an excuse not to worship your Creator. The Lord does not listen to excuses. He says, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man.” (Romans 2: 1, KJV). Excuses often appear to be right, but they never are. They often seem to bring relieve, but they never do.
† Excuses bring limitation.
† With excuses come dishonor and shame.
† Excuses encourage laziness.
† Excuses rob you of opportunities and bring about delays in your life.
† Excuses can make you fall out of favor.
† Never find excuses not to have a dream and live your dream. Never find an excuse to stop believing in your dream.
† Never find an excuse to accommodate what is not blessing you.
Excuses are the gateway to failure.
Make a determination to free your life from the consequences of excuses. The truth is, any time you make an excuse you’re telling a lie. “There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from the truth when he is to make an excuse.”(U. Z. Odum). Hosea 4:4 says,
“Don’t point your finger at someone and try to pass the blame!” (NLT).
Whenever we make excuses, we are passing the blame of our lack of responsibility to something or someone else. So, learn to stop making excuses for it carries no reward.
Copyright 2009 by Maikh Etto. All rights reserved.
