Confessions from the Court: "It wasn't me."

"Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?"
Matthew 7:3-4 ESV

You know, when I am on the court I think I have all the answers. I can tell you who is not blocking out, I can tell you who isn't playing "D", I can tell you who isn't moving without the ball, and I can open my mouth and tell you when and how it should be done. Am I right every time? Absolutely not! Am I right some of the time? Sure. But even that is not the point. The point is that most of the things I see others failing to do I am also failing to do them. I notice one guy not blocking out while at the same time my man blows by me to grab the rebound and put it back up for 2. O' how blinding pride is.

Listen to what Paul says about this when writing to the church at Rome,

"Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things."
Romans 2:1 ESV

Solomon lets us know that there is "nothing new under the sun" (Ecc. 1:9) and this is definitely the case when it comes to the sin of pride that causes us to blame someone else before taking the responsibility of our own faults. This is not just in basketball, but in life. If we look all the way back at the beginning (Gen. 2-3) we see Adam doing the very same thing. God tells Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, they disobey God and do so and God shows up to hold them accountable for their rebellion from which they cannot hide. How does Adam respond? "It wasn't me! It was someone else's fault!" (My Paraphrase ) How similar I am to Adam.