Responsibility

The word ‘responsibility’ has been clanging around in my head for some time now. It has really come to the fore front of my thought at my new job.

Talking to God about it today has really been a mental trip. As you will learn below, the re- prefix means ‘to return to’ ‘again and again’. I have learned this before and God is showing me again.

We are given things by God. The main thing being… life.

Within that life we are given more things. Some good things and some bad things. Some rain and some sunshine.

When we don’t know God we often blame Him for our poor condition and wonder if he is real or not. When we do get to know Him we blame Him for all of our pain, doubts and worries.

We are acting very much like a spoiled child in both scenarios. We complain, disdain and treat harshly all those things in our lives that the good Lord has blessed us with. One of which is His written Word. We say we want to know Him, and yet we don’t take the one for sure item He has given us, in order to know Him.

One verse he has given me a long time ago is found in John 6:29 “This is the work of God… to believe in the one he has sent.” Believe in Jesus, that is the work of God. All of our other work, our job, our family, our volunteering, our ministry all fall under that verse, no matter where we are, our physical condition or the cost we may have to incur.

Being responsible for something means you are answerable to another for that something.

Gods word indicates that He is responsible for all authority. I have found that every position or title comes with a level of responsibility AND authority. If He has given me anything, and He has, then I am answerable to Him for that, and the secret to doing what I’m suppose to be doing with it is really no secret at all IF… IF… I know His Word. If I know His Word then I have all I need in order to handle the situation the way God would want me to handle it.

So today as I studied He led me back, he re-turned me, to His word of encouragement at John 6:29…

“The work of God is this… to believe in the one he has sent.”

Resource: https://www.etymonline.com/

responsibility (n.)

“condition of being responsible,” 1787, from responsible + -ity.Meaning “that for which one is responsible” is from 1796. Related: Responsibilities.

responsible (adj.)

1590s, “answerable” (to another, for something), from obsolete French responsible (13c., Modern French responsable, as if from Latin *responsabilis), from Latin respons-, past-participle stem of respondere “respond, answer to, promise in return,”from re- “back” (see re-) + spondere “to pledge” (see sponsor (n.)).

Meaning “accountable for one’s actions” is attested from 1640s; that of “reliable, trustworthy” is from 1690s. It retains the sense of “obligation” in the Latin root word. Related: Responsibly.

re-

word-forming element meaning “back to the original place; again, anew, once more,” also with a sense of “undoing,” c. 1200, from Old French and directly from Latin re- “again, back, anew, against,” “Latin combining form conceivably from Indo-European *wret-, metathetical variant of *wert- “to turn” [Watkins]. Often merely intensive, and in many of the older borrowings from French and Latin the precise sense of re- is lost in secondary senses or weakened beyond recognition. OED writes that it is “impossible to attempt a complete record of all the forms resulting from its use,” and adds that “The number of these is practically infinite ….” The Latin prefix became red- before vowels and h-, as in redact, redeem, redolent, redundant.

sponsor (n.)

1650s, from Late Latin sponsor “sponsor in baptism,” in Latin “a surety, guarantee, bondsman,” from sponsus, past participle of spondere “give assurance, promise solemnly,” from Proto-Italic *spondejo-“to pledge,” literally “to libate many times,” from PIE *spondeio- “to libate” (source also of Hittite ishpanti- “to bring a fluid sacrifice, pour;” Greek spendein “make a drink offering,” spondē “libation, offering of wine;” compare spondee).Sense of “person who pays for a radio (or, after 1947, TV) program” is first recorded 1931.

sponsor (v.)

1884, “to favor or support,” from sponsor (n.). Commercial broadcasting sense is from 1931. Related: Sponsored; sponsoring.

Definition of libate. transitive verb. : to pour out a libation or make libation to. intransitive verb.

Dictionary result for libation

/līˈbāSHən/

noun

liquid offering, offering, tribute, dedication, oblation;

sacrifice

“dressed in their priestly robes, they pour libations into the holy well”

spondee (n.)

“metrical foot consisting of two long syllables,” late 14c., from Old French spondee (14c.), from Latin spondeus, from Greek spondeios (pous), the name of the meter originally used in chants accompanying libations, from spondē “solemn libation, a drink-offering,” related to spendein “make a drink offering,” from PIE root *spend- “to make an offering, perform a rite,”hence “to engage oneself by a ritual act” (Mine: over and over again, to pour oneself out everyday, doing the seemingly mundane tasks of life with a focus on Jesus)

(source also of Latin spondere “to engage oneself, promise,” Hittite shipantahhi “I pour out a libation, I sacrifice”). Related: Spondaic.

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