WHO DO I HOLD RESPONSIBLE?
Who do I hold responsible? This
question has always come to my mind any time I look at myself with critical
eyes. And I am sure that even you also have asked yourself this same question
many times too.
Who do you hold responsible
for the way your life has turned out to be right now? Will you say it is
because of how your parents brought you up or will you push the blame to your
friends? Humans are naturally infused with the spirit of blaming others when
things go wrong along the line. In the Christian Holy Book, The Bible, it is
recorded that when Adam the first person created by God made a weighty mistake
and God came to meet with him as usual. God didn’t see him at their normal
meeting point. God tried to find out why Adam was not where he should be. Adam
told him that he(Adam) ran away when he saw Him(God) coming. God asked him why?
He told God that the woman He (God) gave to him deceived him (Adam) into
disobeying God. This is the same being that when Adam saw her for the first
time he shouted at the top of his voice and was so excited that he gave her a
name without thinking about it twice.
So it is a natural thing to
blame someone when you didn’t get the expected result or make the expected
impact. But life experience has thought
me that it is only those that do things that are not very natural that become
outstanding in this life. This means that before you could be able to get to
where you have dreamt all along to get to; you must stop the blame game and
take hold of your life and your dream. You must go the way of the unnatural men
to achieve greater success in life.
Steve Goodier wrote, “The day I realized that I am in charge
of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or
worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a
happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a
life that matters.” Therefore to experience a
better life and to experience a dream(s) come true. To be where you ought to be
you must put blaming others aside and know that whatever happened, happened
because you permitted it to happen.
Opera Winfrey said “you are responsible
for your life, you can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction.” Because
you are responsible for your life you have to do what Bradley Whitford said, “ Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it
happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever
your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come
down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen...
yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”
Two points you have to mark
very well in what Whiteford said; number one is “Honor your CREATOR and the
second one is “by doing what you can to make grace happen.”
Do not play God always remember
that there is God somewhere above the sky and everywhere. Honor Him in
everything you do. As much as you are asked go into action, never ever get
involved with anything that is anti God. Do not look for success in a sinful
way. Do not do drug. Don’t get involved in financial crime or cyber crime. There
is nothing God cannot do if a man is ready to act upon God’s word. Do not stay
idol waiting for grace to manifest. Go ahead and manifest the grace by doing
what you have not done before.
I will like to tell you
this in conclusion; “the end does not justify the means.” The means justifies the
end.
