Choice and Accountability
Choose you this day whom ye will serve;.... but
as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15)
I will choose good over evil and will accept
responsibility for my decisions.
Choice and Accountability’s color is Orange, the caution of a stoplight. We too have choices to make and we need to
pray to make the correct choices. We
need to use cation in making choices.
Choice is the angel of these two and accountability
is the devil. I made them separate
because I wanted to show that there are two choices we can make, good or
evil. And whatever choice we make we are
accountable for that choice whether it is good or bad.
My Testimony of Choice and Accountability: It is
a wise thing to think about a choice before you make it. Think about what the end result of your
choice might be. If it will lead to a
good end, then it is a good choice. But
if it leads to a bad end, then it leads to a bad choice. One of my favorite stories that describes
this is, “My Turn On Earth.” It’s about a girl named Barbara and her turn on Earth.
"A note came down from Heaven which read, “If anyone desire to be first, the same shall be last of all.” This one too was signed by
Jesus. Well, Barbara began learning in a
hurry. And there were many, many things
to learn. For one thing, she learned that
she could choose the things that she did.
After all, that’s what that awful war had been fought about -
her right to choose. She also learned
that when she chose the first step on a path she also chose the end of that
path. She learned that telling a lie
puts you on a path that leads to nobody ever believing you ever, even when you
tell the truth. “I don’t like the end of that path,” said Barbara. And she backed
up fast."
One of the beautiful things about the values is
that they are all linked together. You
can use your knowledge that you have gained to make the right choices and then
you will be accountable for the good things that come your way. Use your knowledge to avoid making wrong
choices,being held accountable for wrong choices is hard.
