Does your accountability include ultimate accountability to God? (105-3)
Accountability is always in a leaders own best interest regardless of the degree of inconvenience it may entail.
Read 2 Kings 12:1-3 and 2 Chronicles 24:15-25.
As a one-year-old, Joash, a prince in Judah was rescued during an assassination attempt. He was smuggled into the temple and raised and taught by the priest Jehoiada for six years and then brought to the throne as Judah’s king through a daring plan devised and carried out by Jehoiada. Joash never forgot the kindness of the priest and allowed Jehoiada to hold him accountable as long as Jehoiada lived. According to 2 Kings 12:2, “Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord all the years Jehoiada the priest instructed him.”
After Jehoiada’s death the king allowed other influences into his life and according to 2 Chronicles 24:18, “They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came upon Judah and Jerusalem.” Joash fell so low that when Jehoiada’s son Zechariah prophesied that the nation would not prosper because they had forsaken the Lord, Joash had him killed. When a leader refuses to be accountable there is not a limit to what they are capable of doing to satisfy “self.”
Leadership accountability between peers is extremely beneficial as long as both parties realize that their ultimate accountability is to God. Apparently, Joash neglected to acknowledge and live by that truth.
Do you currently have someone to whom you are voluntarily accountable? Do you have individuals that are accountable to you? Have you determined in your heart and communicated to your accountability partner that ultimately you both are accountable to God? Effective leaders don’t make the mistake Joash and Jehoiada made concerning ultimate accountability.
2 Corinthians 5:7, 9-10 “We live by faith, not by sight… So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.”
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