Let me start my submission this way:
We are expected to be accountable to society’s code of conduct and constitution. In an ideal society:

● Executives are accountable to their Board of Trustees.

● Organisations are accountable to their regulatory bodies.

● Couples are accountable to each other.

● Children are accountable to their parents.

● Leaders are accountable to their followers.

● Employees are accountable to their employers.

● Society is accountable to its laws and ethics.

Society has discovered that if people are not regulated and held accountable, they might not even realise when they’ve gone off tangent.

There have been times we’ve made solid decisions by ourselves.

There have also been times when we’ve made foolish decisions on our own.

Take a doctor, for example — he/she is certified as a graduate today because they were accountable to the academic environment and its requirements. If they weren’t, there would be no graduation — no show.

“Anyone holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”
— Thomas Paine

We are not infallible. It is wise to have someone who has proven their integrity and earned our trust — Someone to whom we can submit our ideas and decisions for vetting and approval.

Accountability is for our safety; it preserves us.
People who have done well in society have been accountable — either to a higher standard or to a higher person.

As believers, who better to be accountable to than God?

If we are sincere, we can be accountable.

You know how no one can say they love God and not love their neighbour?
In the same way, you cannot claim to be accountable to God while refusing to be answerable to His Word.

[20]. If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
[21]. And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. — 1 John 4:20–21

Having been forgiven and rescued from sin, Christians are called to live in a way that pleases the Lord Jesus. Every believer in Christ is ultimately accountable to Him.

[9]. Therefore we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well pleasing to Him.
[10]. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. — 2 Corinthians 5:9–10

So, as a believer, you are to be accountable to God.
And if you are truly accountable to God, you will honour the structures He has placed over you — God and His Word, your marriage, the church, your family, your parents, God’s people, just to mention a few.

Some people say they are accountable to God but reject the structures He has put in place. That’s a very convenient disposition.

They are not living according to the tenets of His Word, yet they claim to be accountable to God. Taaaaaaaaaaaararrrrrhhhhh.

If you can’t align with the structures you see, how can you be accountable to the One you do not see? (1 John 4:20)

Having been forgiven and rescued from sin, Christians are called to live in a way that pleases the Lord Jesus. Every believer in Christ is ultimately accountable to Him.

So be like Joseph. Even though he was sold into slavery and found himself in Potiphar’s house — a situation he didn’t choose — he could have said, “God, You didn’t look after me when You could have. Now I’m in a difficult place; I will do whatever suits me.”

But no. Even in that wilderness season, Joseph remained anchored in God’s word. When faced with temptation, he told Potiphar’s wife,

“How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” — Genesis 39:9b

That is the posture of a true believer: recognising that God is always with us, and letting that awareness guide every decision.

Before I act, I must ask;
Does this align with God’s word?

Let us embrace accountability — to God, to His Word, and to the godly structures He has placed in our lives — not as a burden, but as a safeguard and a growth path.

Have a blessed week.

Ayomide Arowele

Push Buttons is a weekly devotional of The Powerpoint Tribe.