Do you realize that the word responsibility is not found in the Bible? But you do find the word faithfully; and as you study the verses where faithfully is mentioned, it always comes with the idea of fulfilling our responsibility.
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II Chronicles 34:12a, “And the men did the work
faithfully...” They were thorough with their responsibilities.
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Proverbs 29:14, “The king that faithfully
judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established forever.”
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III John 5, “Beloved, thou doest faithfully
whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers.”
You
get the idea that the Lord expects us to carry out our responsibilities
faithfully. If I’m sick, I still have
the responsibility to see that my areas of responsibility are carried out
faithfully.
The same is true if I go on
vacation. I am to see that nothing is
lacking, that a beat is never missed in my area of responsibility. This should all be done in a timely, orderly
fashion. This is being a responsible
person.
There is a little saying that
I have that goes as follows. “There once
was a job that anybody could do but nobody did.
Now, when everybody found out that nobody had done the job that anybody
could do, everybody got upset at somebody.”
Now, the moral of the story is this: if somebody had just carried out
their responsibility that anybody could have carried out, nobody would have
gotten upset at anybody.
✞ Do what you are supposed to do. Do it when you are supposed to. Do it in the way you are supposed to…and do it that way all the time.
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