Nothing in society is more destructive than irresponsibility. The reason we have such conflicts and debilitating experiences in the world today is because the world is filled with people infected by the irresponsible spirit.
Irresponsibility means not being answerable to authority, lacking a sense of accountability or not liable or able to answer for consequences.
Even God's household of faith is involved in this sense of irresponsibility. When sin is confronted from the pulpit, the message is too often transferred to the person sitting in the next pew. Few want to hear a pastoral rebuke. Many Christians are loving unclean lives and don't want anyone to reprove or correct them. This is the spirit of irresponsibility.
Irresponsible people are experts at transferring blame for their own irresponsible actions. Adam, the first man started this trend when he spoke in defense, "God, the woman you gave me....remember it was you who gave her to me...she gave me the fruit, and because you gave her to me, and she gave me the fruit....both of you....NOT ME....made me eat it! I'm innocent God! Leave me alone!"
Irresponsibility means not being answerable to authority, lacking a sense of accountability or not liable or able to answer for consequences.
Even God's household of faith is involved in this sense of irresponsibility. When sin is confronted from the pulpit, the message is too often transferred to the person sitting in the next pew. Few want to hear a pastoral rebuke. Many Christians are loving unclean lives and don't want anyone to reprove or correct them. This is the spirit of irresponsibility.
Irresponsible people are experts at transferring blame for their own irresponsible actions. Adam, the first man started this trend when he spoke in defense, "God, the woman you gave me....remember it was you who gave her to me...she gave me the fruit, and because you gave her to me, and she gave me the fruit....both of you....NOT ME....made me eat it! I'm innocent God! Leave me alone!"
Now if the woman had knocked him out, shoved the fruit in his mouth, pushed it down his esophagus into his stomach and made sure it got digested, then he could say she was responsible. But she didn't; it was Adam's choice. When Adam failed in that responsibility, his first reaction was to blame someone else and ever since that day, man has transferred blame to someone else. We are all professional blamers. We blame tobacco companies for cancer, blame government for unemployment as if they can stop us from being productive if we chose to, the criminal blames society for his behavior, homosexual blames his or her hormones for their perversion. People even decide they won't be Christians because they have seen too many hypocrites, so the sinner blames his own personal damnation on a hypocritical preacher. But doing that is foolish because God never tells anyone to follow a hypocritical preacher, He tells us to follow Jesus.
Irresponsibility is freedom's greatest enemy, let's get back to responsibility and take charge of our lives. No matter what has happened in the past, we can take charge of our futures right now, stop the blame game and become true dominators of the earth.
Excerpts from Burden of Freedom by Dr. Myles Munroe
Irresponsibility is freedom's greatest enemy, let's get back to responsibility and take charge of our lives. No matter what has happened in the past, we can take charge of our futures right now, stop the blame game and become true dominators of the earth.
Excerpts from Burden of Freedom by Dr. Myles Munroe
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