By Eugene Seah, Singapore
Have you ever gotten so drunk and wasted—
High on alcohol?
Have your sibling piggybacked you home—
Wondering if you are dead or alive,
Drunk or drugged?
Have you ever gotten so jaded and reclusive—
Longing after a teenage love lost?
Yearning for an unrequited love?
Reminiscing on the hundreds of days spent with the other,
While disregarding the years of care and providence
By your family who keep watch over you in the stillness of the night?
Have you ever fallen into temptation and fought,
But falter—sinning while wanting to be made clean?
Being the prodigal son—hurting Him who receives you back?
Do we remember and uphold the accountability?
God gave me an accountability to my parents who bore me;
An accountability to my siblings who I share a mutual responsibility for;
An accountability to my friends who care for me;
An accountability to believers who I pursue His Word with;
An accountability to the children who I share His joy;
An accountability to myself in whom Jesus Christ dwells;
And an accountability to God who loves me beyond all measure.
May this accountability keep us in check always.
May we live up to this accountability in our daily lives—in Spirit and in deeds.
Jesus Christ upheld His accountability for us, when we did not love God.
He loved us and died on the cross for us that we can be rescued.
What is hindering you? Pour out your heart in prayer to Him today.
This is good. Most of us have a big problem with accountability.
In essence, what we claim to be ours isn’t really ours. God owns everything. On that day the Master will demand, we give account on how we use the talent(s) He gave us. May we not be found wanting. Amen