Sadly, God's people have often been betrayed by people they have trusted, receiving blame for something the accuser was actually at fault. The resulting hurt creates rage and heated anger. The blame game is played out in families continually as sibling rivalry threatens to destabilize the most equitable parenting techniques. The blame game appears every day as a major political party has gaslighted the American people, accusing their 'enemies' of something they have been blatantly doing for years. Human nature governed by the human heart is hardwired to blame everyone but self for transgressions or mistakes. From Adam and Eve and Cain, as well as the disgustingly corrupt narcissistic leaders of all three branches of the current American government and all of Jacob's offspring, the perennial tendency to point fingers at others is hard-wired into human nature and the corrupt human heart rears its ugly head (Romans 8:7, Jeremiah 17:9). To err is human, but as James Joyce observed "mistakes are the portals of discovery" if we admit them and learn from them. God's saints are not immune from automatically pointing fingers and shifting the blame but must ardently pray for the ability to embrace the lessons of their errors as an opportunity to grow, rather than to cowardly and timidly hide their sins, stunting their spiritual growth (Proverbs 28:13).