Take Responsibility

Take Responsibility

TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

Whoever has no rule over his own spirit, is like a city broken down, without walls. Proverbs 25:28

If you want to see real progress in your life, you have to step up and take responsibility for the things that God has placed in your care. This is the beginning of maturity. Don’t blame your circumstances, your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, your boss, employees, pastor or government. Don’t even blame the devil or witches and wizards. Your sin is your fault and your attitude is your product.

Certainly, the world system can contribute to our difficulties. People who dislike us can create lots of problems for us. And the environment we live in may be full of negativity and deep-seated challenges. Our family and past may even be a liability to us. All these challenges are real and accepted. However, these are not the only reasons for our failure to do things that God wants us to do.

The real reason for human failure is rooted in our attitude. God did not create humans to be passive and powerless. He did not create us to just allow life’s circumstances to control us. In the creation mandate of Genesis chapter one, He commanded us to ‘have dominion.’ To have dominion is to take charge and rule. Take charge of your mind, your attitude and choices. Don’t just sit around and blame people who are also trying to live their own lives.

To move forward, you must take charge of your own negative attitudes. You must take charge of your tendency to make bad choices. You must take charge of your tendency to procrastinate. You must take charge of your fear. You must take charge of your poor human relations. Don’t allow circumstances to determine your future. God has given you the power to determine your own destiny.

That is the way to move forward. Take charge and move on!

Prayer: Ask the Holy Spirit to strengthen you to take control of your life, and over everything that concerns you.

Scriptural Reading: Proverbs 25:21-28

Take Responsibility