Somebody Dropped Me
What Happened to You Is Not the End of You
Playing the victim is a difficult mentality to break. It’s always someone else’s fault. It’s passing the buck. It’s the old blame game. Playing the victim is a form of moral blackmail. You make yourself untouchable—innocent, not guilty—at someone else’s expense. Adam and Eve blamed one another as if to exonerate themselves from their wrong.
“Somebody dropped me” could’ve been Mephibosheth’s story. Both of his heroes died in battle on the same day he was dropped by his nurse as a child running from danger that left him crippled (2Samuel 4:4). No going outside to play hide-and-seek with other kids. No climbing into a treehouse. Expected to live in the palace one day as king, he ended up disabled and living in Lo-debar—a place of no communication, a land of the lost and forgotten.
He could’ve easily played the victim—somebody dropped me.
“I’m sorry I’m not what you expected, but somebody dropped me.”
“I had bigger dreams as a man for myself, but somebody dropped me.”
“I could’ve done more in life than end up in Lo-debar, but somebody dropped me.”
This could have been his story—but like all of us, grace changed it. Grace is greater. Where failure and brokenness could have been the end, grace gave Mephibosheth—and all his family—a fresh start at the king’s table.
“Somebody dropped me” doesn’t have to become another Adam and Eve story of blame and shame. Jesus is our pioneer, pathfinder, and leader.
Jesus chose a different response than blame, retribution, and victimhood. Playing the victim is pretending to be powerless in order to gain power—but Jesus chose the cross to teach us vulnerability, nakedness, responsibility and compassion toward one another. Jesus has forgiven reality for what it has become, and He calls us to get there too. He loves us and wants us to love one another—not blame each other. Jesus knows forgiveness is our only hope.
So, let’s follow the Leader.
Let’s stop pointing the finger and choose to forgive ourselves and others. Let’s stop passing the buck and playing the victim. Let’s accept our necessary suffering.
Take up our cross.
Be responsible and truthful about failure—and forgiveness.
What Happened to You Is Not the End of You—Grace Has the Final Word
Life is short. Live.
The rest of your life can still be the best of your life.
Grace,
Cedric
Playing the victim is a difficult mentality to break. It’s always someone else’s fault. It’s passing the buck. It’s the old blame game. Playing the victim is a form of moral blackmail. You make yourself untouchable—innocent, not guilty—at someone else’s expense. Adam and Eve blamed one another as if to exonerate themselves from their wrong.
“Somebody dropped me” could’ve been Mephibosheth’s story. Both of his heroes died in battle on the same day he was dropped by his nurse as a child running from danger that left him crippled (2Samuel 4:4). No going outside to play hide-and-seek with other kids. No climbing into a treehouse. Expected to live in the palace one day as king, he ended up disabled and living in Lo-debar—a place of no communication, a land of the lost and forgotten.
He could’ve easily played the victim—somebody dropped me.
“I’m sorry I’m not what you expected, but somebody dropped me.”
“I had bigger dreams as a man for myself, but somebody dropped me.”
“I could’ve done more in life than end up in Lo-debar, but somebody dropped me.”
This could have been his story—but like all of us, grace changed it. Grace is greater. Where failure and brokenness could have been the end, grace gave Mephibosheth—and all his family—a fresh start at the king’s table.
“Somebody dropped me” doesn’t have to become another Adam and Eve story of blame and shame. Jesus is our pioneer, pathfinder, and leader.
Jesus chose a different response than blame, retribution, and victimhood. Playing the victim is pretending to be powerless in order to gain power—but Jesus chose the cross to teach us vulnerability, nakedness, responsibility and compassion toward one another. Jesus has forgiven reality for what it has become, and He calls us to get there too. He loves us and wants us to love one another—not blame each other. Jesus knows forgiveness is our only hope.
So, let’s follow the Leader.
Let’s stop pointing the finger and choose to forgive ourselves and others. Let’s stop passing the buck and playing the victim. Let’s accept our necessary suffering.
Take up our cross.
Be responsible and truthful about failure—and forgiveness.
What Happened to You Is Not the End of You—Grace Has the Final Word
Life is short. Live.
The rest of your life can still be the best of your life.
Grace,
Cedric
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