: Excuses have their uses

Never thought I’d be quoting 80s crooners ABC in my blog, but just a quick thought from my morning reading. From my time in the police I heard sone people ‘caught bang to rights’ as we said come up with some fantastic excuses. One drunk I arrested protested ‘I’m just an innocent stybander!’ I love how real (and really lame) Aaron’s response is when he gets nailed for his part in getting the whole nation in trouble. Moses asks him, ‘what happened here?!!’ Uh oh… What do I say? ( I paraphrase) ‘Er….well it was everybody else, they wanted to be bad but not me…’ Exodus 32:24 ESV “So I said to them, ‘Let any who have gold take it off.’ So they gave it to me, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”” See it at YouVersion.com: http://bible.us/Exod32.24.ESV This great big golden calf thing everyone’s bowing down to instead of the real God ‘just happened!’ Caught red handed With your pants down Your hand in the till The lie found out What do we […]