Accountability

From: The Word For Today - Bob Gass Ministries

Romans 14:12 "Every one of us will have to give an account of himself before God."

The Bible says, "Each of us will give an account of himself to God." You say, "Account for what?" The assignment God gave you in life.

The editor of the Bellefontaine Examiner newspaper in Ohio, Gene Marine, sent a new sports reporter to cover a big game. He returned to the paper with no report. "What's the story?" asked Marine. "There is none," replied the reporter. "What?" growled Marine, "and why not?" "Because there was no game," replied the reporter. "No game? What happened?" quizzed the editor. "The stadium collapsed." Unable to believe what he was hearing the editor asked, "Then where's the report on its collapse?" After an awkward silence the reporter replied, "That wasn't my assignment, sir." Needless to say, that was the end of his career.Jesus shared some attention-getting insights on taking your assignment seriously; He points out that in the final analysis our responsibility is to God, and the rewards that will really matter and last, come from God.

Eugene Petersen paraphrases it this way in The Message: "Who is the dependable manager, full of common sense, that the master puts in charge of his staff to feed them well and on time? He is a blessed man if when the master shows up he's doing his job.

But if he says to himself, 'The master is certainly taking his time,' begins maltreating the servants and maids, throws parties for his friends, and gets drunk, the master will walk in when he least expects it, give him the thrashing of his life, and put him back in the kitchen peeling potatoes…

Great gifts mean great responsibilities; greater gifts, greater responsibilities!" (Luke 12:42-48).