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I'm Not Guilty

So Reggie Bush gave back his Heisman Trophy. I don't want to get into the ins and outs of USC and how they did or didn't break the rules. But when giving it back, Reggie said that it wasn't an admission of guilt.

It sounds to me like he got advice. 'Give it back and you keep people off of you either way.' I could be wrong. But I'm not sure what else makes you give back an award you won if you believe you won it fair and square.

In Job 27:5-6, Job is speaking back against his good friends who keep telling him to admit he's a sinner. Job remains stubborn. 'I will not deny my integrity.' Good for you, Job! If you didn't do it, don't admit to it.

I realize that the guilty people aren't prone to admit their faults either, but that proves nothing here. If someone says they didn't do it, we should at least acknowledge the possibility that they are saying that because...they didn't do it!

I'm not a college football fan. I'm no fan of USC or Reggie Bush. I'm also not to keen on Job. Sometimes he strikes me as a whiner. But I know at least one judicial system that says that innocence is the default, not guilt.

Have you ever been accused of something you didn't do? Have you ever paid the penalty for something you didn't do?

My kids have been complaining lately about the recess time they have lost because others in the class are talking. But sometimes innocent people are wrongly accused and suffer the consequences. If only I could think of One Guy who did no wrong and yet paid the price for all.

He was innocent and He will not give back the prize for which He fought. That's a prize we can all keep.
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