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Over the last several months I have been focusing on the discipline of prayer. I’ve printed 30 calendars with prayer points. This month I am trying out this one. It plays music in the background as you read. It has a daily verse, quotes in the same theme, and small readings, morning and evening and prayer.

Something I read that was interesting to me:

….they may not be mature enough to bear responsibility…

commentary book I am reading on Timothy and Titus

Responsibility is the state of being accountable or answerable for one’s actions, duties, or obligations. It means carrying what is entrusted to you faithfully and accepting the consequences of your choices.

The mark of immaturity is the inability to bear responsibility – instead there is blaming, neglecting, resistance to correction, unfaithfulness and often a fair amount of pride that marks by an attitude that speaks, “I don’t have to answer to anyone.”

The scripture gives us clear direction in this and greater understanding of it. One who is living according to the Spirit and not the flesh — is one who walks with God and moves with His Spirit.

“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
That’s about helping each other when weak, carrying the weight of trials together.

Galatians 6:2

Fulfilling the law of Christ – which is love – is when we help each other when we are weak and carrying a weight of hardship. There are times when we are strengthened by God to carry our own load and another’s. But we must be aware of where our own strength comes from so that we do not think we are better or can do it on our own.

WHY?

“For every man shall bear his own burden.

Galatians 6:5

We are responsible to pull our own weight (like every soldier has his own pack he must carry) and not to become a drag on others. We are to do what we can do honestly and faithfully. And sometimes we too will need help. We are responsible for our own actions, choices, and faithfulness.

But there is yet another layer:

“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”

Romans 14:12

We are not only responsible to and for our own selves and our choices but ultimately, we are accountable to God Himself. If He has called, we answer. If He has sent, we go. If He has given, we thank. If He has taken, we trust.

Our whole life we will be disciplined — trained in being responsible. We will bear it, or we will buck it. We must be careful, aware of when we say in our hearts, “I just don’t like it when people tell me what to do.”

We will be told all our lives, by God, by our parents, by our teachers, by our trainers, and we will have to tell ourselves. Learning is a lifelong thing. Responsibility is a life grown thing.

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