What is accountability?

This is a question that most of the Christians in the modern Church shrugs its shoulders to, or they would rather not deal with. The interesting thing about this is, if we are bible reading Christians like we should be, we will find that from Genesis to Revelation, accountability is the subject most discussed in there, maybe not naming it like being stated here, but the word of God given to each individual comes out to one understanding for all, be ye holy! meaning, hey! repent! be accountable for your actions! When Adam lost his head over Eve's beauty and conniving ways, God held him accountable for his actions and the result, we are all sinners come short of the glory of God. The man Noah kept telling his generation for 120 years to live righteous, no one listened, in the end, the actions of the man and his staying accountable, saved him and 7 family members. Moses had a hard time trying to save the Israeli slaves who came out of Egypt, the slaves were actually God's people who never knew they were blessed and stands to inherit everything good of the earth and heaven by just staying accountable to the unseen God Moses was telling them about, they were so rebellious that in the end, the journey that should have probably taken a year, took 40 years of going round and round like people without a tomorrow in the wilderness and a whole generation of young able bodied men and women were lost to the desert. Skipping that to Jesus time, Jesus told his disciples to be accountable too, if we read his teachings, Jesus said, if we love HIM, we will keep his commandments. What is that? I don't know about others, but to me, it means staying accountable. I have to be accountable for my actions, not for myself but because not being accountable has a domino effect, it will affect others and by the time we are sorry, it's no use. What do I mean by saying that? It means, if I say I love Jesus, it means I love the Church, Pastor and his family, my family in the Lord and my own family, anything that has Jesus stamp on it. What I say or do will affect them drastically and there will be heavy consequences felt everywhere if I do not pay attention to what I am doing. Now, here is what happens if God is using you to bring the word of accountability to this generation of the modern Church, when Herod the king of Israel, married his brother's wife Herodias, John the Baptist confronted him about that, John wanted Herod to be accountable to how he is living his life, the result John was beheaded. Jesus preached accountability to his own Jewish people and he was crucified. Jesus' disciples followed his leading, they preached accountability to their generations and each one of them suffered martyrdom. Recently, the ABC President spoke to the student body of this College and asked, how is your spiritual life? The question was simple but very important, because you see, our leader was calling us to once again look at our lives, are we being accountable? for if we look at the effects of accountability, it should give us an understanding of what the word means. Accountability actually is holiness, without which we will not see God. So, what do we say? if we are asked to stand accountable, are we going to be the ones who behead the messenger or are we going to be like David, he admitted his fault and sought God for forgiveness? As students of the Bible, I would like to think that we will be like David, confess our faults one to the other, ask forgiveness, make up our minds that we will end this year stepping into the new year as people who by faith will live accountable lives in everything small to big, that God will be pleased with us.


"Lord God, we have sinned against you and you alone. In humility, we come asking for your forgiveness. Please give each one of us a new heart and put a new spirit within each one of us; Please remove from each one of us the heart of stone and give each one of us a heart of flesh that we will hear, receive and obey what your Holy Spirit is saying to us your people now." In Jesus' name we pray.... amen.