We’re all used to being accountable. As children, we were accountable to our parents; as students, we were accountable to our teachers; as employees, we are accountable to bosses; as spouses, we are accountable to our significant other.
Accountability isn’t merely about controlling behavior or enforcing consequences. It’s about pursuing a deeper relationship with God.
When we grow in faith, accountability to God is no longer a terrifying prospect. Rather, it’s life-giving, motiving, and liberating.
The key to spiritual accountability is loving stewardship, and stewardship is an offspring of gratitude and love.
Stewardship is utilizing and managing all resources God provides for the betterment of His creation and for God's honor and glory.
1 Peter 4:10-11 "God has given each of you a gift from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies. Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to him forever and ever! Amen."
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