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mhykx:

--- Quote from: M.G. on February 06, 2009, 11:45:52 AM ---I have a simple way of understanding this. God shows me something about my carnal mind. I agree with him and tell him the truth about that part of me that he has shown me. I confess that it is true. This is how I am accountable. There is no guilt involved. I know that I was powerless to prevent myself from being this way and I am powerless to change myself or mold myself into the image of Christ.

God is the only one who can be responsible for completing this work. He is the only one who has the power. He is responsible for the whole plan and designed it to make us his children. It's a good plan.

So I confess my sin as he brings me to repentance and I turn myself over to him to change me and mold me into the image of his son. There is so much freedom in that.

This is how I distinguish accountability from responsibility.

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G.M.

Thank you very much for your (and for others, as well) explanation.  I prayed to God to give me explanation or answer to this question.  Bit by bit, I'm beginning to understand.

Allow me to recap you said.

Carnal mind - our weak heart - God has shown and made us to understand it.  It is desperately wicked (or weak).  I read it.  I agree that it is true.  THAT made me or will make me ACCOUNTABLE to every thing that I do.  But there is NO GUILT INVOLVE because I cannot do anything about it, I am powerless to resist temptation and thus 99.99% I fall into it.  And UNLESS the SPIRIT OF CHRIST lives in me, there is no way I cannot change myself.  But thank GOD He is RESPONSIBLE to finish the whole plan and design that will make, fashion, and mold me to become His child.  When I sin, I confess as he brings me to repentance and turn myself over to Him again.

Oh, the whole process of God's plan of changing his children into the image of His Son Jesus...."How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!"

Dave in Tenn:
Amen Mike.  I have long believed that until you can put something into your own words you don't really understand it.  I believe by your words that you do have the beginnings of understanding.  God bless you as you continue. 

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