YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE

One of the things i have seen in humans is the inherent tendency to apportion blames and shift responsibilities to others when things go wrong.

Many blame their families for their miseries in life.Many blame their colleagues and friends for their inability to move forward while so many more blame the goverment for their low estate in life.

These trading of blames however did not start today for it has been mankind,s way of escape from unfavourable situations right from the inception of the world.

In Genesis 3.11,God questioned Adam why he ate the forbidden fruit and Adam instead of accepting his wrong and asking for forgiveness simply passed the blame over to his wife--Eve saying,"it was the woman you gave to me".

Here Adam blamed not just his wife but God as the cause of his misfortune.
Eve when confronted on her own poured the whole blame on the serpent who happened to be God,s arch enemy and by extension the enemy of mankind.

But inspite of these excuses,trading of blames and shifting of responsibilities,God never spared or exonerated anyone of them.
To the serpent HE said ,"Because thou hast done this,thou art cursed above all cattle,and above every beast of the field;upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life..."

Unto the the woman He said,"I will geatly multiply thy sorrow in thy conception;in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;and thy desire shalth be upon thy husband,and he shall rule over you"

Lastly unto Adam,HE said,"Because thou hast harkened unto the voice thy wife,and hast eaten of the tree,of which i commanded thee saying,thou shalt not eat of it;cursed is the ground for thy sake....thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee;..in the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread,till thou return unto the ground;for out of it was thou taken;for dust thou art,and unto dust shalth thou return"

What a fall from glory to doom! Interestingly,the excuses,shifting and trading of blames in the above narative did not absolve Adam or Eve of their shortcomings.All of them were pronounced guilty by the surpreme being meaning that."thou art inexcusable O man'
In other words,you are responsible for your life,you are in control;you are in charge.

An irish poet--Bernard shaw said,"i don,t believe in circumstances;what i do if my circumstances are not favourable is to rise to the challenge and create the kind of circumstance i want for myself"


Your circumstance no doubt might be negative and unfavavourable.Nevertheless,you have a duty to face it squarely and by doing so make something meaninful out of it.

William shakeaspere had but a little formal education but ended up becoming one of the greatest litrary legends of all time to such an extent that no litterature student can be taken serious if he does not know anything about William shakeaspere.Infact,claiming to be a litterature student without knowing about this man is just like somebody claiming to be a bible student without knowing john 3.16.

Philo farnsworth was orphaned at a very tender age of 13.This was enough to crush him but he rather saw it as a challenge .He became responsible for his life and ended up becoming an electronic T.V inventor.

AMAZING GRACE-------One of the most popular hymns we sing in churches today was composed by a blind woman who dared to be responsible for her life.

I can really go on and on and on with so many names of men and women who took charge of their lives and made something better out of their ugly situations and by so doing rose to prominent heights in life.

No wonder Oliver wendell Holmes--the famous American jurist said ,"What lies ahead of us and behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us"

And in rounding up this discourse,i want to say that we all are like victims of a shipwreck in a desperate bid for survival and in this bid,it is every man to himself.It is either you struggle and swim to safety against all odds or you get drowned.

So,take charge of your life.Live responsibly,believe God for a breakthrough and you will become somebody to be reckoned with in no distanct time.

If it is going to be.it is up to you.

Thanks and GOD bless you really good for your time.