God calls men to an accounting for their lives. For some people, that might be happening today, for the first time, or the hundredth time. But periodically through the flow of life, as men possess in their hands the stewardship of the things that God owns, they are called to give an account for their life. And there will be many such accountings before that final judgment verdict is rendered at the great white throne.
In Romans Chapter 1, it says that God has deposited in man the knowledge of Himself. That God has given to man the environment around him enough information that he may follow that path to the knowledge of God. That God has given man the intellectual capability to understand, and reason, and see the truth. That God has presented to him the revealed Word, the Holy Spirit. In other words, God has given a treasure to men that they are to perceive it from Him, and they are to follow that perception to the full understanding of who He is and what He wants. And God periodically calls men to such accounting.
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