Personal Responsibility

 Then Job answered the Lord and said: "I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me. I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes." Job 42:1-6

Here is the key to Job's life--personal responsibility.

He had the chance to blame his buddies for his bad thoughts. He had a chance to wiggle out of the responsibility of believing what he believed. But he did not. He knew he was personally responsible for what he believed, as we are.

If you believe something about God because Grandma thought it, and it's wrong, you are wrong. If you believe something because your pastor believed it, and he is wrong, you are wrong. For whatever reason, when you are wrong, you are wrong, and you need to own it to begin discovering and living in the truth.

As children of the King, we are not victims and should not live a life of excuses. Instead, we are conquerors and should live as those who know and have the truth and are guarded by the One who is truth.