Accountability
From Pastor Tim Olof
Proverbs 7:1-5
My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your nearest kin, that they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.
The consequence of blessing for keeping the Word of God.
Proverbs 7:6-23
For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice, and saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, a young man devoid of understanding, passing along the street near her corner; and he took the path to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. And there a woman met him, with the attire of a harlot, and a crafty heart. She was loud and rebellious, her feet would not stay at home ... With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with her flattering lips she seduced him. Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks, till an arrow struck his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, he did not know it would cost his life.
The consequence of death for not keeping the Word of God.
The idea of accountability has been a popular thought in the church for some time. It seems it gets tossed around like an old washcloth that has lost its ability to clean anything, but we keep it around because it deserves a place. Accountability is defined as an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one's actions. The culture we live in does not want to step up to the plate and be called out for going after what God forbids, which tells me more about the individual’s heart than it does about their speech.
Accountability is a powerful tool for the Christian who desires to follow Jesus.
Love,
Pastor Tim
