WHO WILL TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY?

One of the important questions when it comes to aged parents is, who will take their responsibility? In West, there are facilities, where aged parents could be admitted and they would be well taken care of…at least, physical and medical side of the care. The care of the aged parents, is one of the contentious issues between the siblings in a family. We are talking about “Christian” families. I have seen so many of them. No one wants to take the responsibility, to care for the aged, and dependant parents.

May I urge the reader – please take the initiative, and take their responsibility, however difficult it may be. The LORD will stand with you. Such care is not so easy, physically, mentally, economically and emotionally. Our own family – spouse and our children – may not like it, and disagree. Perfectly possible. But who should take care of our the aged parents? Is it not one of our Christian responsibilities? Would not our LORD ask an account of this matter? When God asks us for an account, what would we say?

No one has ever become poor, and lost on life, just because they stepped forward, and took the responsibility, to care for their aged parents. May I encourage you my brother and my sister, step out to take this initiative. Can we abandon our parents, when they need us the most? Have they abandon us, when we were vulnerable? Can we neglect their care, just because other siblings are avoiding this responsibility? Can we be so selfish and self-centred, that our world consists of I, my spouse and our children? Is our outlook so narrow and narcissistic, that it has “no room” for anyone else, even our own parents, who are the reason for us to be in this world, in the first place? Would we do the same shirking, if it has to do with the parental property? Funny isn’t it? People want a share in the property, but they do not want to share in their responsibility towards the parents. WOW! Amazing!!!

May the LORD help us to be among those, who take the initiative to shoulder the responsibility, especially, when everyone else is avoiding it. Blessed are the responsibility takers, in the name of Christ our LORD, who deemed it His responsibility, to make arrangements for His aged mother, even while suffering excruciating pain and agony on the cross, and on the verge of death. Can we not make, Christ our LORD, as our example, and follow Him? We are the disciples of the LORD Jesus, isn’t it?