It is a common knowledge everywhere today that people do what people see; that what an average person does or chooses or says is usually influenced by what such person has seen or heard. This saying reveals an inherent trait in us humans to mirror people around us – from our parents, to our peers and to our senior ones – we live to say or do what we see most of the time.
Accountability however, is hardly done in public and among a given people. Accountability is often between a person and another. A form of self or organizational reporting that shows in detail, what one person or an organization has done over a period of time. Sometimes, accountability takes the form of paperwork, in which a person (on behalf of self or organization) writes down every dealing or transaction made in a given period. When such documents are read or reviewed; usually, it is at the absence of the one who wrote them.
If you observe how people do what people see, and if you take a careful look at accountability; you will soon realize a potential trap or challenge for each one of us. While we often do what we see and we often say what we have heard; when we shall account for what we have done or said, we will have to do it personally!
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. 11 For it is written:
“As I live, says the Lord,
Every knee shall bow to Me,
And every tongue shall confess to God.”[b]12 So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.
Romans 14:10-12
What a situation! We do what we see others do, and we say what we hear others say around us; yet, none of them will speak for us on the day of our accountability before God who created, blessed, preserved, empowered and enlarged us on the earth. We must be careful henceforth – to say the least!
