Recently, I have become aware of a very cumbersome reality in my life. This reality is a manifestation of responsibility and a coherent awareness of my own accountability. In truth, we all fall short of perfection. Often our lives are plagued with deceitful or sinful action. However, we do not have to succumb to the shame of our actions if we are willing to take accountability for them. Essentially, it is in our brave onus of our actions that brings about change in ourselves. I refuse to pamper my past nor do I encourage myself to rationalize my present misdemeanors. I am accountable to God.
It is foolish to delegate blame and attribute failure to external factors. I am a product of my own action and belief. The beauty of believing is your own blessing. Through your beliefs you gain credence over your actions and the peace of an honest lifestyle.
Colossians 2:1-23
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...
Colossians 2:1-23
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...
Accountability: A topic too often avoided -(the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.)
ReplyDeleteWe all struggle with "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:8 -9 (NIV) Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as He was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?" God was giving Adam a chance to be accountable; to admit to himself, His Creator and to Eve the exact nature of his wrong. Adam failed to do this and the fig leaf of denial has been passed on to the entire human race.
When we blame, justify, rationalise our actions and not taking accountability for our choices, we deceive and hide from ourselves. This is when pride is our master meaning the self is too big. A spirit of fear takes control and the fear of shame, fear of man or fear of rejection manifest itself deceiving us into evading the truth. Accountability keeps us on the right path, a path of truth instead of a hiding behind fig leaves. It is difficult to choose accountability when we are in a condition of prideful arrogance. Lack of awareness of the sin nature is lack of accountability before God. Acknowledgement of our sinful tendencies is accountability before a Holy God.