A Reflection On Accountability

When I need to consider carefully how I am using my life

We are accountable to our Creator. He sees us, and one day we will stand before Him to explain what we have done and what we have left undone. We will have to own up to every thoughtless comment (Matthew 12:36), and we will have to explain the discrepancy between the resources we’ve been given and the resources we’ve used.

This can be a frightening thought, but it is not meant to frighten us. Before our accounting, we who believe have already been given assurance of forgiveness in Christ. Yet one day at the end of our earthly lives, we will stand before God with a full understanding that we had the power of Jesus Himself working within us, and an acute awareness that we did so little with it.

These words are not for judgment, they are for encouragement. God gives them to stir us up. They prompt us to live with an understanding of whose we are and why we were made. Let the truth of God’s ownership sink in. When it does, it changes everything. Your life will never be the same.

The LORD sees clearly what a man does, examining every path he takes.

Proverbs 5:21