Age of Accountability...

We are all individually responsible to God. In the end there will be no excuses, or alibis we will be able to use as we stand before God to give an account. Nothing our parents did or didn’t do will be excusable. Nothing we suffered from at the cause of another will be made acceptable for a pardon. We all live life through our own lens, and thus are only responsible for ourselves. Even parents who raised their children right, will not be responsible for how they turn out. In modern times, I’ve heard some preachers talk about the age in which a person reaches where he/she becomes fully accountable for themselves. Some call it the “age of accountability.” Regardless if it’s actually in the Bible or not, there are plenty of scripture verses that tell us about our own responsibility to God for our behavior. Here is an example of it being used in regards to king not killing the children of those who assassinated his father. Amaziah killed the assassins, but left their children alive, because he followed Deuteronomy 24:16. Here in America, we have gotten away from Biblical principles. We have forgotten Who we are responsible to. Our founding fathers knew who we are responsible to; it’s what our constitution was built on (it wasn’t written out because it was accepted, common knowledge, it didn’t have to). We need to start accepting the fact that we are all accountable to God, and stop blaming everyone else for our problems. It’s called having integrity. Someone is always watching. And someday, we will have to answer Him for how we lived our life. Are you ready to give your answer?

When Amaziah was well established as king, he executed the officials who had assassinated his father. 6 However, he did not kill the children of the assassins, for he obeyed the command of the Lord as written by Moses in the Book of the Law: “Parents must not be put to death for the sins of their children, nor children for the sins of their parents. Those deserving to die must be put to death for their own crimes.” 2 Kings 14:5-6