"Good Account"

"I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother." (Psalms 35:14) There really is a difference between accounts, as to how God will attribute the actions of our hearts to our account; don't think this doesn't matter, because to most surely does. In all sincerity, David is speaking about how he treated Saul, and how it was that he viewed Saul as God's anointed king. This is a very good example of how we should be when we are praying for our leaders, especially our church leaders and those that are pastors over our churches, whom God has anointed for that position; as an ordained leader of the church, our pastors must be lifted up in this kind of prayer, even if we might be having a conflict going on within our own hearts with their leadership; they are our leaders, and we must pray for them as those that God has placed over the church. In all my years of leadership within the church, I have seen some pretty nasty treatment of the pastors; it's as though there is no regard for God's anointed when someone does not feel like having regard for God's anointed; there will be an accounting for that kind of an attitude, because we cannot let our feelings overrun our commitment to love one another. Jesus gave several different versions of how we are to treat those that would offend us; whether that offence came from how we were treated, or if it came by false accusations, the general response of our hearts should be the same: we should instantly forgive them, pray for them, and offer them our other cheek, just in case they might feel like doing it again. If you really take time to think about how this might benefit you, as far as becoming more Christ like, then you might be more inclined to practice it more often..."He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth." (Isaiah 43:7)