Count on who?
I have a hand full of people who I count on daily to help me walk my talk and live for Jesus. These are people who can give an account of me. I was talking to one of my accountability partners who happens to be out of state. (I’ve had accountability partners everywhere I go. In my last church plant, my elder team was also my accountability partners. Rare to find that). I had a good conversation with him. He’s one of the men in my life who has held me accountable on the covenant I made with my eyes, anger, forgiveness resolution, my marriage, being a father, etc. You can’t replace men like this. We got to talking about tools that we have to help hold each other accountable. For instance there are web tools that help hold men accountable for the sites they visit. My friend and I have used them for years. I’ve added more men to this group of men over the years. The curious thing is, this seems to create a stigma that we need a software product to track this because this is the worst sin out there, but sin is sin.
My friend and I talked about all of the other products that could be out on the market for accountability partners. Local GPS for tracking them to the casino. Auto twitter when their credit card is being used for those addicted to spending. An Email ping set up on the cookie jar or better yet the scale when it goes unused or over or under depending on your particular addiction. We could set up our phones to auto record key phrases to catch gossip that would auto beam them to their accountability partner’s phone then they would forward it to the person you were speaking about. So you get it, there is market out there and a product could be invented to get us to sin less just as there seems to a product to help us sin more.
The bottom line is we have God’s word and we desperately need relationships getting involved and in faces. Not texting, not emailing, but real voices and real faces being truthful and sincere in helping each other look more like Christ. I’m going to say something quite strong, so don’t take it wrong, but if you don’t have that person in your life, you will never look like Christ as much as you would with that person in your life. You are going to be prone to giving into sin. You are going to be prone to plateau and sliding backwards in your daily walk. If you’re also not reading the Bible daily seeking the wisdom of God to engage the Holy Spirit inside you then you are baiting Satan to use you. Don’t give him that sort of footing. Don’t give him that. There is someone else who needs you in their life to reign in sin and help Christ reign in both of your lives. Who do you count on? Who can give an account of you? Find that person. Pray for that person to come into your life. It’s not about a product line to stop sin, it’s about us doing everything we can to look like Christ as the final product in our lives. W
