When I was a young girl, a visiting pastor came to my church and preached a sermon entitled: “Is it a Demon, or a Bad Decision.” Even though I don’t remember the pastor’s name, I remember that sermon almost word for word. He told the congregation that too many times when things go wrong in people’s lives they are quick to try to place the blame on outside forces (friends, family, coworkers, bosses, the devil, you know, the normal things) instead of taking an introspective look inward and realizing that sometimes when things go wrong, it’s not everyone else, it’s because of our own bad decisions.
There will be times when things will get stagnate, or digress in our lives and when we’re searching for answers as to why that is, maybe the first place that we should search should be ourselves. Here are seven ways that the problems that we face have origins in our own bad behavior.
