From today’s reading...
Son of man, what is the meaning of this proverb that you recite in the land of Israel:
‘Fathers have eaten green grapes, thus their children's teeth are on edge’?”
Today this saying would be
- “It’s not my fault, I was born this way.”
- “Don’t blame me. It’s my parents’ fault I turned out this way.”
- “It’s no wonder (I’m obese / an alcoholic / abusive). It runs in my family.”
Yeah…ahhh…no.
Ezekiel goes on to remind us that the buck stops here, and by “here” he means with yourself.
We will sleep in the bed we make.
Somewhere between the ages of 14 and now you need to take responsibility for yourself.
As I tell my students and clients, your bank balance is a direct reflection of your good and bad choices up to this point.
So is your weight, your health, your relationships, your faith.
“Because he practiced all these abominations, he shall surely die; his death shall be his own fault.”
If you live a good life, you’ll go on living.
Live as a degenerate and you may have some short-lived guilty pleasures, but the day will come when you’ll realize the truth and the consequences of the “guilty” part of your pleasures and that it would have been better to have developed the discipline to…
Stay the course.
Keep the faith.
Endure.
Now go sell something.
