Accountability

– Allowing godly people to help you with your failures –

If you want to do the right things and be a person with integrity, then you need people who love you and care about you to help you.  You will make mistakes.  Everyone makes mistakes! But not everyone has friends who love them enough to help you even when you’re wrong.

It is really hard to let other people know what our mistakes, sins, and failures are.  No one likes to share those things.  We all want to hide every bad part of our lives.  But having accountability means finding a small group of friends who love God and who want you to keep doing the right thing.  It means letting them ask hard questions about what you are doing well in and what you’re not doing well in.  It even means sharing the mistakes and failures before they figure it out.

The reason it is important is because if they are people who love you and want you to know God more, they will help encourage you when you are discouraged.  They will know what mistakes you keep making and they can help you stay away from those mistakes going forward.  God says that we get sharper and better with the help of others.  Not only do we get help when we fail but we also get to help others.

“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.“ – Proverbs 27:17 (NLT)