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GROW IN BEING RESPONSIBLE

Part of growing and maturing is the increase in responsibility. More responsibility means more is expected of us. Our childishness and irresponsible behavior was often without consequence when we were children, but with age comes the requirement for us to face the consequences of our choices and actions. Responsibility is rewarded and irresponsibility brings on undesirable effects (what we sow, we reap). As we age we are expected to become responsible role models to those who are younger.

Life is unfair most of the time in this wicked, fallen world. But God is just. I always have the ability to choose how to respond to life’s curved balls and injustice, and for that, I am held responsible by God. I may not be able to change the way people treat me or what happens in my life, but I most definitely can change the way I respond. I am responsible to God for my response. We resort to playing the blame-game when things don’t go our way, ever since the Garden of Eden, but we cannot dodge our responsibility- and for that I have to give an account.

Let us choose today to grow in becoming more responsible – as a child of God by knowing the Father and choosing to become more like Him; as disciples of Christ by living out the teachings of Christ and joining with the Church community to build His kingdom by rescuing those in darkness and bringing them to Christ by love; as an individual in choosing to do what is right; as a spouse in joyfully fulfilling my responsibility to love and care for my wife/husband; as a parent to take up the responsibility to pass on the faith to my children and bring them up in the ways of the Lord, not relegating this responsibility to someone else; as children to respect and care for our parents;, as an employee to work hard and loyally; as a citizen of the place where I now reside, by seeking its welfare.

The CHALLENGE to Change:

What are the responsibilities you are trying to dodge or outsource? Outsourcing them does not release us from the responsibility. With the taking up of our responsibilities, comes the grace of God to help us tackle it. List down some of the major responsibilities you have and the people to whom you answer. Receive God’s grace that is always sufficient to fulfill your roles.