Take Responsibility

Remember, that being responsible means that you are committed to doing everything within your power to ensure that things work out. It means for you to do something about what you can do something about. My dear reader God will not do for you what you can do for yourself. He has given us the power as human beings to do so much. We are created in his image; we have the power to conquer our environment. We must take responsibility for making things to work the way they should work.

I know its easier for us to make excuses and for us to blame other people or for us to blame circumstances but when you are used to making excuses you find it difficult to know how to make anything else. We need to take responsibility for what happens whether good or bad. Remember once again, God will not do for you what you can do for yourself. He won’t brush your teeth for you, he won’t clean your room for you, he’s not going to lay your bed for you, he won’t paint your house for you, he won’t pick the dirt on the floor on our behalf, he won’t eat our food for us and as a nation we must realize that God will not do for us what he has given us the power to do.

Remember the man that was brought to Jesus in the Bible on a stretcher; he couldn’t walk and Jesus told him, ‘man take up your bed and go home.’ What he couldn’t do for himself God gave him the power to walk but that’s where the miracle stopped. As far as taking his bed was concerned; he had to carry that bed himself. Dear friend, whatever you have the power to do – to go to school, to learn, to be an apprentice under someone, to work hard, to get out of your bed and out of your house in the morning, to set goals for yourself and try to achieve those goals God will not do those things for you.

Let me describe some characteristics of responsible people. Responsible people don’t like to be unproductive. They like to add value to other people’s lives. They don’t like to take things from others for free. They do not like to be liabilities on other people. They know that the person, who gives will always be stronger, will always be richer; so, they prefer to be the one always giving.

Responsible people like to pay the price. In life we must pay. If you pay now you play later. If you play now you will pay later whichever way you pay. Responsible people like to pay their prices earlier enough. Then, responsible people have healthy self image because they believe that with God’s help they can do it; they can achieve their goal and the more they try the more they achieve the healthier their self esteem is.

People who run away from responsibility never grow; never build self confidence because ultimately inside them they see themselves as failures. Responsible people are not afraid to confront challenges. They believe that problems exist to be solved and they are willing to use the resources at their disposal to achieve their goals. Now, dear reader, it is not enough for you to do something you must do it to the best of your ability.

God will help you!