The guys in my group are getting closer and closer to committing to something special, accountability. It has come up in every book we have done so far and it is also starting to show up in Sunday School lessons as well. There is a real feeling that God is moving us in that direction which is very exciting! but somewhat terrifying at the same time. Accountability means vulnerability. It means pulling off the scabs of old wounds that never healed. It means laying myself open before God and others for the express purpose of transforming my mind and heart after the Lord.
We need to pray for the opportunity and the intent and the method. We need to pray for God to provide healing. We need to pray for each other. Am I excited? Like I've been only at earlier times when I was about to embark on some great adventure that leaves it's mark upon my heart forever, you bet I am excited! And then there is part of me, the condemned man on his way to the gallows, that is scared to death of the changes that God may ask me to make.
2 Corinthians 5:16-18
16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
Romans 12:1-2
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.Psalm 139:23-24
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
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