USA – Responsibility, December 12, 2025

The conversation goes something like this. Why isn't someone doing something to help these people? I already do more than most people I know. Why isn't someone else helping? I'll give more when I see someone else helping!Even Pilate and the priests couldn't escape the fact that you can't blame what you do or what you don't do on someone else. "I have sinned,' he said, 'for I have betrayed innocent blood.' 'What is that to us?' they replied. 'That's your responsibility.' 'I am innocent of this man's blood.' [Pilate] said. 'It is your responsibility!" Mt 27:4, 24)Here we see a vivid picture that may remind us of what we all know in our own experience - how a man's conscience may be clear-sighted enough to discern and vocal enough to declare that a certain thing is wrong but not strong enough to restrain from doing it. Conscience has a voice and an eye, but unfortunately it has no hands. It shares the weakness of all law; it cannot get itself executed. Your conscience is a king without an army, a judge without officers. Never deceive your conscience with the delusion that your responsibility may be shifted to any other person or thing. Each man has to bear the consequences of his own actions."This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and truth." 1 Jn 3:16-19"Anyone who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." James 4:17In love and service to our Savior Lord and King, Jesus Christ.Your servants and His friend