RESPONSIBILITY ATTITUDE

“Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” (Col 4:5-6KJV)

Every attainment begins with an attitude. There is an attitude that will always show the leadership ability of an individual. It is called responsibility.

Responsibility is the ability to choose how to respond to situation and circumstances of life. It is having no excuse for failure. For example, if a man physically abuses his wife all because of her ill behavior, little did he knows that between the time his wife offended him and the time he reacted, he has the chance to decide on how to respond. Therefore responsibility is exercising the power of choice

“The heart of the righteous studies how to answer” (Prov 15:28NKJV)

Joseph has all the reason to be angry with his destiny, with man and with God. The dreams that caused his brothers to hate him were given by God. If there is something wrong in being good and diligent, then the attitude of Potiphar’s wife should not have being questioned. Without any doubt, Joseph dream has enough reason to fail, but he chose to be lively in every instance. Even when imprisoned for the crime he never committed, he was all out on a ministry of consolation. I believe some inmate would have called him a fool for suffering in vain and not giving in to his master’s wife.

Responsibility is making the right response through inner ability. There is a big difference in allowing situation to determine one’s reactions and in determining how to react to every situation. It is all in the power of choice – the power of a made-up mind.

If you fail in a venture and you assume “it no use trying again, I am a failure after all”, you have simply responded badly. You have given failure control over your life.

If your experience with your wife makes you think “no woman, no cry” or that women are necessary evil, then you need to check again how responsible you are. If God sees man incomplete without a woman, then seeing yourself complete without your spouse equals lack of understanding. This principle applies to both genders.

Just of recent I came to understand what the scripture means when it says:

“You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.” (Matt 5:38-40NKJV)

“Turning the other cheek” simply means we should choose our actions not according to circumstance. For we become controllable by life when we only move the way things are commonly accepted, such which we eventually lead to life without impact.

“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8NKJV)

The unique nature of a believer makes him not to be reactive, but to respond with right attitude. Making moves that every ordinary man lest expect. A wise man once said “Life is 10% of what happen and 90% of how we react to it”.

How much did you believe in the great deposit of God for your life? How far can you handle such problems that many fears entertain? How far can you go even without the support of most of you close associates? What does your action looks like when you are wrongly accused? How do you respond at home when someone annoyed you outside? What is your reaction when everybody seems to team up against you? Didn’t you begin to share blame, curse, rage, or pick up your reaction on things or someone else? It’s good to know that every man is the writer of his own life story. You can determine what happened next at every turn of every situation. Even when God watches over us, our actions largely determines His contribution towards our situations. (1 Sam 2:3, John 5:22)