Accounting

God is not an accountant. Ouch. I was an accountant, so I have a great respect and affection for accountants.
Anyway, the phrase "God is not an accountant" is part of a comment on today's Gospel where Jesus declares that He did not come to abolish the law but to bring it to fulfillment.
Accounting is the art of recording and classifying transactions for the purpose of preparing an adequate report which is called "financial statements". Oh, I've got to repeat here that I used to be an accountant but I haven't been on this field for more than ten years already and I am sure that there have been so many changes to date. What we used to call "financial statements" may be called by another name now.
Going back to today's Gospel comment, when it said that God isn't an accountant, it meant that God doesn't keep a ledger, an index card, or whatever record to "keep track of our progress" by jotting down as plus points the accomplishments and adherence to the law, or as minus points our transgressions. God isn't that small-hearted and trivial.
But there is another thing accountants do which I believe we can do well to imitate: they go deeper into facts, trying to analyze the different factors and their inter-relations...
Socrates put it this way: "The unexamined life is not worth living".