Accountable
He were going to “right” an issue. A small issue, compared to the whole big scheme of things, but it was an issue nonetheless, and one that didn’t necessarily need to be “righted.”
And he was “acting out.” And he was “on a roll.”
Everybody else understood why the issue was the way it was and softly tried to interject, but the person was in charge of the issue, and gettin’ it done.
I thought to myself — no, I thought to myself and God — “why does he act like that”?
Now, there are times when I pray and seek God’s voice and don’t seem to hear an answer for years. And there are also times when I muse to myself, “before God” and I’m surprised by a responding Voice. And the Voice, answered clearly this time, immediately: “…because he’s not ‘accountable’.”
Kind of stopped me in my tracks. I knew the meaning.
So I have been in a relationship at VCC for over thirteen years, set up to be “accountable”, but the accountability wasn’t completely functional, because the relationship was distant.
But now God has given me, and is delivering me into church relationship which won’t be long-distance, and the thought struck me that I am going to be able to recognize, accept, initiate accountability.
This is huge, requires some risk, and besides that, I am very grateful. I’ve been living with extravagant, but limited Christianity, and now this is good.
