One of the reasons many organisations have separate departments for different types of business related services is for accountability. The ability to have someone responsible for something helps in the smooth run of businesses. At the end of the year or at every quarter, the heads of the various departments are called to render accounts of what was done. This helps to evaluate progress, success, pitfalls and consider possible ways to improve. If a particular department fails to give accounts or perform woefully, it ultimately affects the productivity of the whole organisation. The principle of accountability is important to us in managing finances and wealth. If you fail to plan ahead to ensure accountability, you ultimately plan to fail and the end is not pleasant. So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. (Romans 14:12) We have been entrusted with worldly wealth and we should be ready at all times to give accounts of what we have done. It is important to understand that God is interested in the nitty-gritty of our lives and “will repay each person according to what they have done.” (Romans 2:6). We will each give accounts of ourselves to God (Romans 14:12). This accountability is all-encompassing. Most people consider that we shall be judged based on our relationship with God and our spiritual lives. That is true but our relationship with God includes everything about us. How we manage our resources is very important to God and forms part of our deeds. Until we come to understand that working for others is scriptural, we might end up dragging businesses on the floor because they are not ours. As we saw yesterday, “whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. So if you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches? And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else’s property, who will give you property of your own?” (Luke 16:10-12). Handle everything entrusted to you with care. The parable of the servants waiting for their master’s return admonishes us to be ready at all times (Luke 12:36-48). Understanding that God will judge whatever we do in the flesh, we must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.” (Luke 12:40). If God opens the books of your financial management, will He be pleased?
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