Our culture is becoming more and more irresponsible. Children make messes and don’t want to clean up. Teens have children they can’t take care of. Students take out loans they can’t pay back, and adults buy properties they can’t afford. Like it or not, that is irresponsible behavior. The problem is that we’re living in a culture that rewards irresponsibility, and what gets rewarded gets repeated. 

When children make messes and their parents clean up, the children make more messes. When children have children out of wedlock and the taxpayers foot the bill,   the children have more children out of wedlock. In the 1960’s, about 5% of children were born to single mothers. As a culture, we began to reward that behavior and today approximately 45% of children are born to single mothers. When people take out loans they can’t repay, responsible taxpayers are asked to pay instead; just take a look at the student, mortgage, and credit card loan crises in the USA. Because what gets rewarded eventually gets repeated. 

Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. For we are each responsible for our own conduct. – Galatians 6:4-5 NLT

The truth is that satisfaction in life is the result of living responsibly. I’ve never met an irresponsible person who was satisfied and happy with his or her life, because you’ll never reach your God-given potential acting irresponsibly. Living a fulfilled and satisfied life is the result of living responsibly.