We sometimes hear how others don’t want to take responsibility for their actions.  Sometimes we also do not want to accept responsibility.  Truth be told, we are accountable for our actions.  We are free moral agents.  We are all accountable to someone, especially our Father in heaven.

“Failure is divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.”

Webster’s Dictionary defines accountability as :   1.  Responsibility – “a duty that binds to the course of action.”  2.  Answerability – “being called to account.”  3.  Trustworthiness – “a trait of being worthy of trust and confidence.”  4.  “being legally bound to a debt or obligation.”

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?  And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”     Genesis 3:1-3

Eve knew and even repeated the commandment to the devil……..   Therefore, it was not ignorance of God’s commandment; it was a failure to obey.

“And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:  for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:4

“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”    Genesis 3:6

Adam and Eve accountable to God and they disobeyed His command.  Adam blamed God and Eve blamed the serpent.  Neither wanted to accept responsibility. God warned them what would happen for disobedience, and God punished them just as He promised.

“And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.  And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:  But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it:  for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”     Genesis 2:15-17

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.  For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:  So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth:  it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”    Isaiah 55:8-11

“. . . for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”     Galatians 6:7

“When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.”     ~  John Wayne

Eileen Light