In a family, everyone knows their roles and responsibilities and this makes a family unit great and unique. The husband has his role as well as the wife and children. Some are to wash the dishes, clean the sitting room, and take the trash out and so on. Many times, nobody will help you with your house chores except when you “bribe” your siblings with something or you are not feeling too well and if you are not around to get the job done.
As a much younger person under my parents, my responsibility changed from time to time. I didn’t like carrying out my daily house chores but I had to do them any ways. It was like a burden to me washing the dishes or ensuring that there was water in the house. There were times I postponed carrying out my responsibility but guess what, I met them the way I left them and they became doubled the following day (I suffered be I procrastinated). What I observed about carrying out one’s chores is that the best way to carry them out is by doing them immediately or else they will become doubled, piled up and irritating.
The responsibility of a student is to attend classes, read and to do his assignments. If he does not do it, he will fail. In every area of life, we all have our roles and responsibilities that we ought to play. In the office, at home, in a family, in the community you live in and so on, we have our roles assigned directly and indirectly to us. If we play the role, everybody will be happier for it but if we do not, everybody may suffer from our negligence and our act of irresponsibility because our roles contribute to the overall picture of that community. We should realize that the body is made up of various parts and each has its own roles to play. If one does not play its role, other parts of the building will suffer.
1 Corinthians 12:12 says, “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ”.
There are things we all have been delegated to do. While there are other things we should use our common sense to do which will help and relieve us and others. If as an office executive, you do not do your job, you may be sacked or be queried in the long run. Also, there are things that the management did not give you as a responsibility, but by virtue of being a staff of the company, you should do them if it is within your reach or if it falls on table or you find yourself in a particular place in the office to do it. If you are the last person leaving the office, common sense would have it that you ensure that everything is switched off before you leaving.
Furthermore, did you know that if you do the right thing you will not be wrong? I know there are times we do the right thing and people may be angry at us, slander us and try as much as possible to set us up. All of this should not stop you from doing the right thing at all times. If in an office, the staff decide to do something wrong or commit a fraud and you find out, if you go along with it or refuse to report it to the appropriate authority, it will definitely boomerang on you. Reporting the issue to the management or not going with the “flow” with those people who want to defraud the organization will help your integrity. However, you should be ready persecution for doing the right thing. If your company mistakenly pays you more than they should, it is your responsibility to return the money back to them. Doing the right things pays you more than compromising.
Righteousness has been defined as right order or doing the right thing. As a car or bus driver, you know that you should not drive one way and that you should obey traffic rules. If you don’t, you may end up killing and maiming yourself and others. As a Medical Doctor, you should obey the rules of your profession and you are not supposed to cut corners for gains and personal pleasure. So, if doing the right thing will bring pain, insults, persecution, just do it because your future is much better than present pleasures. It is better you do the right thing and live a happy life than to cut corners, make some money, get arrested later and lose your integrity, license and confidence.
James 4:17 (NLV) says “ If you know what is right to do but you do not do it, you sin”.
At times, it takes efforts and discipline to do the right thing. My advice to everyone is that we should do the right thing at all times. It will not cost you anything to do the right thing but it will cost you everything when you do and practice wrong things. They can give you immediate pleasure, gains and satisfaction which will not last. But in the long wrong, those wrong things will bring a lot of pains and regrets to you. One thing I have observed about doing wrong things is that you will do more wrong things to cover up for the previous wrongs you have done. A good example of it is lying. Most times when you lie, you tend to use another lie to cover it.
Proverbs 14:12 NIV says, “ There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.
Proverbs 16:25 NCV says, “Some people think they are doing right, but in the end it leads to death.
My dad flogged me several times when I did some things he did not train me with and when I did what I was not supposed to do. I was also suspended for fighting when I was in high school of which I am now ashamed. There are things that people expect of me to do and if I do otherwise, it will definitely create a wrong impression on them. We all should learn and make efforts to do the right thing at all times. If we do, this world will become a much better place, so many chaotic incidents will be avoided and we will live at peace with one another. Wilson Ileogben
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