Don't be snared.

I've touched on the subject about blaming the wrong person or giving the wrong person credit for something they do not deserve. I said that sometimes I believe we blame God for things that He didn't do and we give the devil too much credit sometimes. The one thing that has really been worked on in my life is that instead of blaming God or the devil for anything bad that happens to me, I now think about if I'm the one the casued this. Many times I feel that it isn't God putting us through hard times or that it's the devils fault that we go through bad things. I'm not saying that those things don't happen because I believe they do, but after reading verse 6 in Proverbs 29 my view that I have on this matter was strengthened. Proverbs 29:6 says:
An evil man is snared by his own sin, but a righteous one can sing and be glad.
I don't believe this verse is saying that if bad things happen to you it's because you are evil. I do believe that our sin can keep us ensnared in those hard struggles and situations that we might find ourselves in. When I think of this I think about a friend that I have that is constantly surrounded by drama. When I first met this person and starting talking to them about this I just thought that this person just had bad luck. But the more I got to know this person I realized that this person wasn't unlucky, this person was surrounded by drama because they put themselves in the drama. This might be coming out of left field but that how I see this. Some many times we wonder why these things happen to us but we never stop and analyze our lives. We want God to step in and fix everything but we aren't walking righteously. Remember what I talked about yestarday, our prayers could be detestable. Also what I've been learning lately is that if I want all these blessings I need to do my part.
Now I'm not saying that bad things always happen to people because they are evil sinners, even though we all are. But I'm just saying that we need to always make sure that we are walking righteous with God and making sure we are keeping our ends of the deal up. I know the Lord tests and does things through hard situtation, but maybe a lot of those things could be avoided if we just tried to stop sinning?
So my prayer for us today is that we would repent of our sinful ways and make a stand to walk righteously for Jesus. I pray for the discernment and strength to do that. I pray for strength and faith for us to let God be God.