FRESH OIL; BE RESPONSIBLE

Dan Osman broke the Guinness book of records but...

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Recently I read about Dan Osman, a man in his midthirties who was the son of a decorated police officer and his mother was a champion barrel racer. He was a descendant of a Japanese Samurai and he learnt kung fu in his early age. He started mountain climbing at the age of 12.

I went ahead to watch a documentary on YouTube showing where he climbed a mountain surface without the benefit of a safety rope, setting a Guinness record. At one point in his climb, he jumped in order to get to a handhold and was momentarily airborne. If he missed the handhold he would've fallen 400 foot to his death. This particular climb is called the lover's leap and the route he followed was called the bears leap after the name of the first person to take the route. The route will take a professional rock mountain climber 3 hours under protective climbing but Dan Osman did it in 4 minutes 5 seconds.

After a decade of climbing, Mr Osman started to practice free falling. He began to set records. In October of 1998, he wanted to break his previous record of falling from 900 feet, then he received a call from Emma his 12 year old daughter who was crying and he abandoned his ropes and instrument. Two days later on a hot afternoon and on a fateful day after warnings from professionals he attempted a free fall and the ropes snapped and his remains was gathered from the foot of the mountain at age less than 35.

Further research showed that Mr Osman wasn't used to our normal life. He came late to meetings, always depended on people to rescue him from troubles like his mother and uncles. He lived rather a careless lifestyle. Didn't have driving license, owed debts, wasn't as much a father figure to his 12 year old daughter he left behind. His mother gave him a nickname 'Danny I forgot' because of his irresponsibility.

Dan Osman broke the Guinness book of records but...he was irresponsible.
Courage is not an excuse for careless living or irresponsibility. The things we do everyday will affect our future.

The naivety of kings brings their downfall. King Saul was irresponsible and didn't kill all the Amalekites as the Lord commanded him. He listened to people and reserved animals and spared the life of their king. At the time of his death in the battle of the Philistines at the Mount of Gilboar, it was an Amalekite who thrusted the sword that killed him at his word. The enemy (bad habits, friends, devils) you don't kill now may hunt you down in the future.

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David was irresponsible in sleeping with a man's wife, a man who laid down his own life to protect and serve him since the day Saul chased him into the wilderness. Uriah was among David's mighty men. Because of this carelessness, Israel will never know peace till this age passes.

The Lord told him through prophet Nathan "because you made the Lord's enemies to blaspheme against Him, He will make you an open shame" Absalom his son Chased him out from his throne and slept with his concubines in the open. God is a jealous God and if we are to follow Him, we must not abuse the grace He has given us.

Samson was irresponsible in protecting the anointing on his head and life and he had to die early.

Hezekiah went and showed the Babylonians the golds and silver and the magnificence of Solomon's temple and they had to destroy the temple and take away all the golds and silver and stones. In dealing with your enemies, don't shoot yourself in the leg.

It is your responsibility to always heed and do the right thing. Make out time for others and help in any way you can.
The explanation your children want to hear in the future is how you survived and not how poor your family was, or how you didn't get a good education.

Blaming parents, the economy, relatives, friends etc for not helping you is irresponsibility. Blaming God too is irresponsibility. God doesn't owe nobody. He has already given us things to freely enjoy. How we align to partake from these things determines how we benefit from them.

We must be responsible. Take charge of our lives. Make decisions that will make us better human.