🤕Responsibility😇

  Winners take responsibility. Losers blame others.

Brit Hume

Just the other day I was driving and got to thinking. There were 100’s of people driving and they all had or should have had a driver's license. In order to have a driver’s license we had to take a written test and also a driving test. What was all that for? It was to make sure we were responsible. Sometime I think we may not have all taken the same test the way some drive and I’m sure they think the same way about me. Responsibility is not something we are just given. Webster says this 

about RESPONSIBILITY  “The state of being accountable or answerable, as for a trust or office, or for a debt. ” Go to the bank and before they loan you money they will check your credit score. If it is a low score then that on paper says you are at high risk or not responsible. The Bible teaches us responsibility. We are to be responsible to God as well as to others.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO GOD:

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO OTHERS:

5. Honour thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
10. Thou shalt not covet.

Exodus 20:20 (KJV) And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

I’m sure you quickly realized that these were the 10 commandments. These commandments were not written to save from sin but to convict us of sin. 

Have you or have you ever had an unwanted feeling, memory or a condition? We can all hold our hand up and say yes to that I am sure. That is what we all need a purging. Now this purging may be to remove ourselves from others or places or things that cause these unwanted feelings in our life. Also the law given to us to keep sin from ruling our lives. When we read “and that his {God} fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.” A constant awareness of God’s presence and my accountability to Him for my actions. It’s been a good while back, I may have been 4 or 5 years old when my dad told me to behave myself in Church. I heard what he said and I understood what he said. That wasn’t the problem at all. The problem was I didn’t do what he said and because I didn’t he took me to the car. When we arrived in the parking lot of the church where he had parked the car. He opened the passenger's front  door and the back passenger's back door. He then told me that I did not obey him when he told me to behave. Then in between those doors he whipped me, dads had to stop doing that but in those days it was ok; and I am glad my dad took the Bible at what it said.  Proverbs 3:12 (KJV) For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Oh my dad loved me alright.

Proverbs 13:24 (KJV) He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.(Soon; in a short time) when my dad said behave it was my responsibility to be accountable. The 10 commands are there for us to know our responsibilities. Like the road sign we see when driving; men working, speed limit 55, curve ahead those signs tell us what’s ahead. They make us aware.

Romans 7:7 (KJV) What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

The Apostle Paul said “I wouldn't have recognized what sin is if those laws hadn't shown it to me.

That is how we know what sin is. Break the law and pay the price. God wants us to know we are responsible for our actions  and we are.