What Is Our Responsibility To God

Our responsibility to God is not a very complex situation at all. Genesis 1:26 states, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." The statement "in our image" points directly to the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. We should be like God in the fact that He is a ruler, and He expects us to rule over the earth until Christ returns for His church without spot wrinkle or blemish.

God expects us to act just as he does precise and to the point. We are to act like Christ in our teaching, ensuring that everyone from the smallest child to the oldest adult knows about the goodness of God. In being like Christ, we must come to the conclusion that there is a certain undetermined amount of suffering that must take place, after all Christ died for the remission of our sins. When we think about behaving like the Holy Ghost, we must then be able to comfort one another just as the Holy Ghost does while we are awaiting the return of Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:11 states, "Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as ye do." We have been given the task to edify one another or build each other up, and not tear down one another. Paul provides a mandate to Christians in Romans 15:1 which states, "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."