We are all accountable but God is Responsible!
Separate the distinctions here....accountable and responsible.
Separate the words choice.... and ....will. They are NOT the same!
We have many choices. God knows which one we will pick because He knows us better than we know ourselves. God tells us to judge ourselves and to take the beam out of our own eyes. He tells us to follow Him. Do we? No!
Why not? Because we can’t. Do we know we can’t?
No. What does it take until we
realize that we can do nothing outside the Sovereignty or separate to God? Accountability brings us to realize our spiritual condition. Do we want to know our spiritual condition?
No. Why? Because our spirtual condition is weak and subject to vanity and for this we experience pain when we are shown wrong, we experience agony when we are shown up and embarassment is not a word we want to have come near to us. We like to look good and we do not enjoly looking bad. We love and cultivate and maicure a good self esteem! and a good self image. Is it fake. YES!
This is part of the plan and process bringing us few who are selected and chosen by God to come to the painful acceptance through much personal suffering and experiences of helpless hopeless loveless soul poverty, that without Gods goodness we can not change? How do we change? Simple.
Painfully through chastisement and flogging and trials and tribulations. We do not want to change. The familiar is comfortable. We can only change if God changes us. Do we want God to do anything to change us. NO! Is God a respector of persons? NO. THANK GOD FOR THAT! .... Then after much suffering we learn obedience....DEGREE BY DEGREE. How? We begin to think that we are not so great anymore. We begin to realize we have to lean upon someone greater than ourselves. We begin to get wise. Then we begin to question our own motives if we are very blessed and God so desires and chooses. Then we begin to see that our motives are selfish and carnal and valueless. Do we want to? NO. God draggs us. Then if God decides, we learn about His Spirit of Love Joy Peace Kindness Goodness Patience Gentleness Faithfulness and Long Suffering. Then we realise that accountability simply shows us what our spiritual condition is. Do we still enjoy carnality or do we rise up out of pain and suffering into the embrace of God? God is making us and He alone decides. Do we agree with this situation yet? No....Yes?
If I am resisting or trying to shake off or show restentment and bickering about my accountability then I am accusing God of His ways not being MY ways and His thoughts not being MY thoughts. I would only do that if I hate Gods ways and Gods words and the carnal mind does just that. It HATES God. We are accountable means we have preferences that show if we enjoy evil or good, carnal or spiritual. Those preferences are
not nothing. They are something. They are our indications of our spiritual weakness, failures and liability to temptation. We can not approach Christ unless we first accept our condition and then approach Him in order to lean on and depend on the Mercy Grace and Unmerited favour of God made available to us only via Christ our High Priest who understands what we experience because He has been through it all. If I do not like it this way, I can rebel and that will show my spiritual condition is immature, hard and void. If I see and accept the way of pain, taking up my cross, as being the only way to the Spirit of Christ, then I can go forward into the image of Christ being made within me by God. The condition I am in is the condition I AM in NOT the condition GOD is in. MY condition is NOT permanent. God will fix us all. We are in our spirtual condition now in this life and God
has made the way out! Look at where you and I are! Look at what you and I bretheren have been shown already. You and I are not babes in the woods. Do we want to go back? Do we wish to return to milk?
You and I are acountable for what we know. To whom much is given much will be required. Do we go for or against this Princiiple of God? God will know all about it and we will be shown up in the end because all our works and words and motives will be revealed. God is responsible for that and He wont be mocked. If I like it, then it shows I am on the right course. If not, then it shows what will not be desireable to see…. a wretched heart condition. No one wants that! ... yet either I am pliable to Gods ways or I am still heading for breaking up and being crushed into a humble and contrite spirit. The Power of God is All Mighty. I should embrace God...and His Christ....yet only HE can create that in me. I can know what is being created by looking at what my choices show me about my spiritual condition!
Christ went to the cross. He did not want to. He went anyway. What does that show of the spiritual condition of Christ? What are my CHOICES showing about me? That is the accountability mirror. Will I throw it away, question it or use it? God knows how mature I am. He knows how much fire of chastisement I still need to get into the image of His Son who died for me.
Accountability.....by my choices so I am known by God and will be revealed accordingly. So will all of us be salted with fire. God will correct, fix and amend errors wickedness and deciept in the end. Do I want to wait till then for the second death Lake of Fire? Am I waiting? Yes....No? Do I care to know who I am before God? Do I care to face my spiritual condition? ....Yes...No?.....Just some of my own thoughts! Just some...!
Peace be to you
Arcturus