Good Evening,
I was greatly encouraged today at church by my brother Jeremy, who reminded me that I had not made a blog entry in a while.
Jeremy explained to me that I was an encouragement to him each time I wrote something down here on An Example of the Believers Blog. Thanks Jeremy.
Remember that even some of the small things you do has an influence on others. That influence can be good or it can be not so good.
Several years ago I made the game board that you see in the picture above. Over the course of the last few weeks, with all of our bad weather, we got the marble board game out of storage and began to use it again. I am not a master wood worker by any stretch, but this game board turned out very nicely and we are able to share this as a family and with our friends.
You may ask, what the game board has to do with accountability?
In the game, your movements are decided by rolling the die and moving the marbles around the board into their home base and making them safe from the other players. You move forward and back trying to get your five marbles to safety and knocking out as many others back to their starting point as you can along the way. You do not have a partner, you probably do not have any friends in the game and if you are like me you will knock people out and back to start just to get a win.
While the marble game is fun and I really like to win, our lives should be totally different when it comes to operating as a loner. We need to have friends and people that we can trust to help us along the way.
Here is where accountability comes into play in life's "game". It was so nice to have someone tell me that I needed to get back on here and write something. I had said, when I took this blog back up, that I would get on and try to write daily. I let it slip. As with most things, the more I neglected it the more easy it became to neglect.
Accountability is that character trait where we are accountable to someone else. I failed in my accountability to Jeremy, because he expected me to keep up with what I had said I would do. Jeremy used accountability to bring that failure to my attention and helped to hold me to my own word. Jeremy approached me in a loving manner and encouraged me to do what I said I would do. That is a true accountability friend.
Readers (teens and parents) and friends let's practice accountability from both sides this week.
If you are going to do something or say you are going to do something then let's do it. You may be an encouragement to someone. If you have a brother or sister who needs to be encouraged by being held accountable, then do it like Jeremy did for me. Have a truly loving spirit of concern that the person you are holding accountable understand that you are helping them to reach their goals or stretch their boundaries or maintain a right relationship with God or man.
Have a great week and
Be an Example,
Love, Bro. Allen
ps. Thanks Jeremy
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