Love and Responsibility: A Deeper Meaning of God's Love and "Pananagutan"

"Pananagutan' is a Tagalog word that means responsibility. It is one's obligation. When God breathed in life for us, He gave us the gift of life and freewill. He opened our eyes for our purpose in life, that originated the idea of "responsibility". He taught us to be responsible for the uttered or unuttered words, our way of thinking, purpose, and most especially our actions.

As children of our Heavenly Father, we have the responsibility for our brethren. It may always be bound with the obligation in our physical needs, but also the psychological, emotional, and the spiritual obligations play vital roles in developing our lives.

God always affirms His love to us. God knows His responsibility to His children. And just as He made Eve for Adam, He knows everything, He did not want Adam to be lonely. God knows His responsibility to his first human son, and of course to all of us.

God made sure that Adam would be a holistically healthy individual. He provided Adam's essential needs from physical, emotional, psychological, and most importantly spiritual aspect. But with these, He also made Adam and Eve responsible for their own lives, as he gave Adam and Eve their free will to live on their own when they disobeyed God.

From then on, He made sure that Human Beings would be responsible for each through Lord Jesus Christ's guidance and principles.

For God alone is God, but man, without God, is nothing.

Our Father taught us to care for each other. He made known His unfailing love through His son Jesus Christ. And the Lord Jesus and God's prophets, apostles, and disciples taught us to be responsible from the love that God has given us. Knowing you know how to be responsible in God's purpose, is also knowing of God's love; Being steadfast in God's love is being responsible and sensitive to each other's needs.

When God calls us to assume responsibility, let's always say "Yes" to His will. It means that our Heavenly Father trusts us, and He will make us grow stronger, beautiful, and then our lives will be full of love, harmony, and peace.

I pray for God's grace and blessings for all of us. I pray that all the people around the world will realize God's purpose in their lives, and to share their lives with others. Make this world a better place by being responsible not only for their own lives, but for those who are in need of God's light and love, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.