Edit or Account? Choose Edit!
We do not need anymore accountability. We need more editing. The minute you have someone that wants to be your accountability partner – RUN - do not walk away from them. They are NOT interested in improving your abilities – they are interested in showing you where you do not measure up to THEIR standards. I find it interesting that many want justice for someone else and mercy for themselves.
Accountability should keep us from failing, by design. Yet, even the people with the best accountability systems fail - as Bill Clinton, Ted Haggard and others have shown. We do not need someone keeping account of our wrongs – as that actually shows that there is less than love for us. Paul tells us: “Love… it keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Cor. 13:4-5. I have been amazed at how often we do keep a long list of accounts of where we look for wrongs, or where we thought someone else sinned.
That is the basic difference between accountability and “editability.” An Accountant looks for errors whereas an editor looks to hone and make better. We all need an editor. Someone who knows us, loves us and knows how to tell the truth in ways to helps us see ourselves as we are and how we could be with the changes God sees can take us from good to best. That editor needs to be a person who can speak frankly with us, but also understand that truth is to be told – not vomited. If it cannot change, or it really is unimportant at that time they know that it is best to follow this simple concept: “Know everything, correct a little, and ignore a lot.”
To keep an account of all the wrongs a person does is in direct contradiction to the call and command of God. It tells us that a person does not love us – even if they say the words. A person who edits us is one who truly loves us. How do we know that an editor loves us.
We know because they speak the truth in such a ways as to open a vista into the panorama of our life. They let us see the whole play, but show us where we can tighten the dialogue, improve the flow and sets of our lives. Oh, to be sure, honesty is not always easy, but in the right tones, attitudes and intentions it can help us see ways to improve rather than create division, deprecation and destruction. An Editor is in our lives for a life and stays with us when we feel at our weakest and most vulnerable to show us ways to rise as a phoenix from the ashes of a broken heart and or life.
This week I pray, you have an editor in your life so that they can speak for God and make you the best you can be. If not, find one and stick with them.
Blessings,
Greg
Accountability should keep us from failing, by design. Yet, even the people with the best accountability systems fail - as Bill Clinton, Ted Haggard and others have shown. We do not need someone keeping account of our wrongs – as that actually shows that there is less than love for us. Paul tells us: “Love… it keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Cor. 13:4-5. I have been amazed at how often we do keep a long list of accounts of where we look for wrongs, or where we thought someone else sinned.
That is the basic difference between accountability and “editability.” An Accountant looks for errors whereas an editor looks to hone and make better. We all need an editor. Someone who knows us, loves us and knows how to tell the truth in ways to helps us see ourselves as we are and how we could be with the changes God sees can take us from good to best. That editor needs to be a person who can speak frankly with us, but also understand that truth is to be told – not vomited. If it cannot change, or it really is unimportant at that time they know that it is best to follow this simple concept: “Know everything, correct a little, and ignore a lot.”
To keep an account of all the wrongs a person does is in direct contradiction to the call and command of God. It tells us that a person does not love us – even if they say the words. A person who edits us is one who truly loves us. How do we know that an editor loves us.
We know because they speak the truth in such a ways as to open a vista into the panorama of our life. They let us see the whole play, but show us where we can tighten the dialogue, improve the flow and sets of our lives. Oh, to be sure, honesty is not always easy, but in the right tones, attitudes and intentions it can help us see ways to improve rather than create division, deprecation and destruction. An Editor is in our lives for a life and stays with us when we feel at our weakest and most vulnerable to show us ways to rise as a phoenix from the ashes of a broken heart and or life.
This week I pray, you have an editor in your life so that they can speak for God and make you the best you can be. If not, find one and stick with them.
Blessings,
Greg
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