Accountability and Responsibility

Ecc 3:5b -A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. (NASB)

There is a time to embrace by those who loved us. They provide encouraging soothing tone, supporting reassuring words, loving honest affirmation, and cooling water insight. However, the person who loves us to be able to look us in our face, flat-footed, shoulders erect, back straight, at arm length away, and tell us, ‘you are wrong..out of order…this is inappropriate.’…is priceless… Letting us know, how our actions, behavior, and/or words to another is badly chosen, an illustration of poor manners, displays a lack of integrible intent, and is a malicious delivery method. This not done with a blunt force trauma hit, rather from a foundation of love and desires to see us grow in the godly person, God called us to become. Not wanting us to be self-destruction, as they reach out to us with honest words, not loving arms to affirm or confirm, but lovingly correction to advise of a better way to handle the issue at hand. Having a person in our life that loves us this much is truly a gift, and invaluable assessed that we sometimes ignore or avoid. Because we do not understand, comprehend the holistic love Christ taught and left as a legacy for all Christians to include in our daily walk.

If all your friends only validate your madness, and never correct your self-demise ways which leads you to self-destruction, then they do not understand the gift of love grant to us by the Sovereign one. The cannot, and will not speak in your life with the choice words that give life, rather their words shall depleted and live you stagnate…See, He loved us enough to rebuke the evil, and embrace the good, the right, the godly. Do you have anyone in your life that helps you to be both accountable and responsible? If not, know that this is needed, and you need to be open to it. So you will always know the difference between content and context, one is about what is within (content), while the other is about the surrounding conditions (context), and relevance and significance, one is about the importance to the matter at hand (relevance), while the other (significance) is about the weight of it changes everything beyond the moment. This is important to understand because accountability and responsibility loses its usefulness and when to embrace and when to shun embracing is lost, but more importantly, applied, implemented and used without awareness and it stings….accountability and responsibility a necessity in our Christian walk, we should not be without…priceless