![\"Jesus](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/405\/2017\/02\/Jesus-cradling-a-lamb-225x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
How many times have you been held accountable for the things you\u2019ve done in your life? Chances are we\u2019ve all slipped up on it at one point or another in our lives. We aren\u2019t perfect, because of sin. Who holds you accountable for your actions? Is it someone in your close friends group? Your pastor? Your family member? A teacher or a professor? Your significant other? Take a minute and think about who that person could be for you.
\nWe don\u2019t like to be held accountable for the things we do in our lives. We\u2019d rather point the finger and say that it was someone else\u2019s fault, not our own. We don\u2019t want the blame casted on us, especially if we feel we did nothing wrong. We often compare ourselves thinking we are better than others by the things we say, or the things we do. Even more so, we think we are better off than some people because of the things we don\u2019t say or the things we don\u2019t do.\u00a0 We often have this mindset of thinking \u201cwell at least I\u2018m better than that\u201d, \u201cat least I\u2019m better than him or her\u201d. Or, \u201cat least I\u2019m not as bad as him or her. I would never do what they did.\u201d We don\u2019t want the responsibility of any wrong doings casted upon us and the burden of saying sorry to others and to ourselves on our own shoulders can be too much for some people to even handle. We\u2019d rather someone else do all those things, because at times, we often think we are above other people.\u00a0 We think we\u2019re better than the people around us.
\nWhen you think about who holds you accountable for your sins, you might think of friends or family members, or God. But have you ever thought of who held important people in the Bible accountable? Who is the Nathan in your life? I know that might sound strange, but here is what I mean: Nathan is a prophet in the Bible that came to David after he had gotten Bathsheba pregnant. Nathan came to David telling him about a lamb that was like a member of the family to a non-wealthy family. They treated that lamb like it was one of their own. It even drank from the same cup as the man drank. David was told by Nathan that the lamb was killed and the man was left with nothing. David was outraged saying that whoever the man was, who took the lamb from the family, should be killed.
\nNathan then came right in David\u2019s face telling him \u201cYou\u2019re the man!\u201d David was the man who had gotten Bathsheba pregnant and took another man\u2019s wife as his own. David had tried to blame the pregnancy on Uriah the Hittite, Bathsheba\u2019s husband. Even though Uriah was in fact Bathsheba\u2019s husband, he was in the middle of a war, so he couldn\u2019t have ever gotten her pregnant.\u00a0 Then to make matters worse, after David found out about the pregnancy, he had Uriah brought to the front of battle field and had him murdered.
\nSee the irony in the story- David wanted Uriah to be blamed so he could wash his hands clean of any guilt from the pregnancy, but Nathan turned the tables on him saying that David was really the one who was guilty. Nathan just didn\u2019t spring it on him telling him that he was to blame automatically. He gradually told David the story about the lamb, then waited to see David\u2019s reaction, then he told him the truth, that David was the one who caused all the hardships.
\nLet\u2019s go back to the beginning question- who is the Nathan in your life? Who is the one that holds you accountable for your actions? If you don\u2019t have anybody like that who is routing for you, with you and has the courage to hold you accountable for the things, I encourage you to turn to someone you trust today and make them your Nathan. And in turn, you can also be their Nathan and hold them accountable as well.
\nHow many of us are actually brave enough to admit that we are often the ones who cause hardships for ourselves and for others. We often end up causing them out of our own desires. We are often being selfish, instead of selfless. How many of us are blameless before the Lord? The answer is a scary yet true one- none of us are blameless before Him. None of us are blameless to stand before the thrown of Heaven either. But the good news is this: by the cross we are made righteous in His sight. We were already precious in His sight. We are precious enough that He decided to save us by sending Jesus, His one and only son to die in our place, when we all should be damned into the fires of Hell for all eternity. That\u2019s a heck of a sacrifice.
\nIt seems like a very daunting task to hold someone accountable for their actions. But when we look at it, we should automatically hold ourselves accountable for the things we\u2019ve done right and wrong, before we ever think about casting the blame onto someone else. Hold yourself accountable for the things you do and the things you don\u2019t do in life, just as Nathan held David accountable. Make changes where they need to be made, and repent of your sin, just as David did.\u00a0 It takes a strong person to be able to admit their wrongs. It takes an even stronger person to be able to admit that they\u2019re wrong and ask for forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How many times have you been held accountable for the things you\u2019ve done in your life? Chances are we\u2019ve all slipped up on it at one point or another in our lives. We aren\u2019t perfect, because of sin. Who holds you accountable for your actions? Is it someone in your close friends group? Your pastor?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345,632,2,75,76,82,9,281,14,41,410,424,425,423,460,456,197,135,630,71,55,633,509,69,631,57,87,498,587,54,346,24,493,349,629,27],"tags":[637,26,61,42,6,5,45,636,22,34,635,49,29,7,638,639,25,634,28],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-disease-caled-sin","category-accountability","category-faith","category-faithful","category-faithfulness","category-family","category-fear","category-focus-on-god","category-friends","category-god","category-god-is-at-work","category-god-is-bigger","category-god-is-bigger-than-any-obstacle","category-god-is-bigger-than-fear","category-god-is-loyal","category-god-is-loyal-to-his-children","category-gods-voice","category-gods-love","category-held-accountable","category-love","category-morals","category-nathan-and-david","category-refocus-your-faith","category-relationships","category-repent","category-right-and-wrong","category-scripture","category-son-of-god","category-talk-the-talk","category-temptation","category-the-cure-for-sin-is-the-cross","category-trials","category-trust-god","category-trusting-god","category-who-is-your-nathan","category-worry","tag-accountability","tag-bible","tag-choices","tag-christian-values","tag-christianity","tag-faith","tag-gratitude","tag-held-accountable","tag-holy-spirit","tag-love","tag-nathan-and-david","tag-patience","tag-peace","tag-prayer","tag-repent","tag-repentance","tag-trials","tag-who-is-your-nathan","tag-worry"],"yoast_head":"\n