Just do it...
We avoid taking
responsibility. Whether it's in our job, or for tasks around our home, or even
for our weaknesses and sin.
We want everything
to be someone else's work or fault.
I can't remember
the old adage in full, but the gist was Everybody is waiting for Somebody to do
what Anybody could do, but Nobody is doing.
When some folks
approached Ezra about their sin, he told them they needed to repent themselves.
He said, "Arise, for it is your task, and we are with you; be strong and
do it." (Ezra 10:4 ESV)
Don't blame sin on
anyone but the man in the mirror, but don't forsake those repenting. Receive
them. Help them. Love them. Keep them accountable.
Also, about taking
responsibility in general, just do it. The attitude that says "I must do
something" will always solve more than the attitude that says
"something must be done."
Let's not wait for
the hospital bed or the coffin to get straightened out. Let's take
responsibility and get straight now.
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