God will never accept an alibi for our sin.

"Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous. And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak" (2 Chron. 12:6-7).

Due to King Rehoboam's sins, God revealed to Him through the prophet Shemiah that he was lifting His hand of protection from him as the King of Egypt came against Israel. But after hearing the prophet Shemaih's propetic words, the King and the princes of Israel humbled themselves saying, "The Lord is righteous." And as a result of the humility that they showed God granted deliverance. When they humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is righteous" they were in essence saying, "God your right and were wrong. We deserve what we got coming to us. We are to blame."

Recently, someone I know, who is fighting an addiction to drugs and alcohol relapsed. After he relapsed he tried to blame the pressures that He said others we're placing on him for his decision to use. God is a God of grace and mercy. When we come to Him for salvation through Christ he will save us and accept us. But although God accepts us just as we are He loves us to much to leave us there. When there is unconfessed and unforsaken sin in our lives God will chastise, correct and discipline us as any loving father would a wayward child (Hebrews 12). God's discipline is designed to bring his children to a place of repentance where once again they can begin to experience God's favor and blessing. One of the keys to genuine repentance of sin is humility. Like King Rehoboam and the princes of Egypt, we must humble ourselves saying "The Lord is righteous." In other words when we truly humble ourselves before God in genuine repentance for our sin we take full responsibility for it. We acknowledge that God is right and we're wrong. We don't blame God or anyone else for the wrong decisions that we make. God will never accept an alibi for our sin. But when we humbly confess our sins we can count on the fact that God is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).