Accountability

No one is perfect. I'm sure there have been instanced in each of our lives where each of us are. That is why we all need people in our lives that we can be transparent with. People who can hold them accountable when they go off base.

Without going into detail, the other day, my wife say me down and said, "Honey, I think you're on track in every area of your life except this one." And in patience and love she explained to me what it was and how she felt. I can honestly say that I never felt more in love with her or loved.

She cared enough to tell me. That's a powerful thing.

And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor. The rich man had very many flocks and herds, but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.” Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.”
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
(2 Samuel 12:1-7 ESV)

This is not just an old testament concept.


Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
(Galatians 6:1-3 ESV)

The important thing is HOW you do it...

A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
         (Proverbs 15:1-2 ESV)

Let us struggle to hold each other accountable. If we don't have people in our lives that are willing to hold us accountable, let's make sure that we find people who will.

On the other side of the coin, we also need to be people who are willing to hold others that we care for accountable as well.