“I will be held accountable on whether or not I’m faithful to do what God tells me to do. It doesn’t matter what the outcome is, or whether people listen to me. The results do not matter; my obedience does”.
Being obedient is hard. Sharing my faith is hard. Serving God is hard. So maybe that is why this verse struck me back then, and still strikes me now.
Ezekiel 3:18-19: If I warn the wicked, saying, ‘You are under the penalty of death,’ but you fail to deliver the warning, they will die in their sins. And I will hold you responsible for their deaths. If you warn them and they refuse to repent and keep on sinning, they will die in their sins. But you will have saved yourself because you obeyed me.
