Innocence

Just look at that face.  How can you stay angry when he looks at you with those cute puppy eyes?  I don't know how they do it - or even if they know they are doing it - but dogs have a way of getting away with it (whatever "it" is).  How can something that looks that cute be guilty - even though they may be guilty?  I can't stay angry for long. 

We sometimes do they same thing.  We may be guilty as sin, but we do our best to try to cover it up.  We try to look innocent.  While we may fool ourselves and even others, there is no way we can get away with it.  The Bible says, "Be sure your sins will find you out." (Numbers 32:23)  Adam and Eve started the process so long ago.  What they have started as an experiment in the Garden of Eden, we have mastered today.  We try to place the blame, we try to play innocent, we try to get away with it.  Who me?  I didn't do it.  Nobody saw me do it.  You can't prove anything.

I have often heard, and even stated myself, that if the dog gets into something, it is not his fault.  It should not have been left out where he could get it.  I should have been watching him.  Or, it is just his nature - he is just doing what dogs do.

Haven't we said the same thing?  It's not my fault.  I can't help myself.  The Devil made me do it.  Yet, in reality, we are all guilty.  Why not admit it?  When we admit our sin, repent of our sin, and follow the Lord, we are then truly free from our sin.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  ~Romans 3:23

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  ~Romans 5:8