A certain senior journalist was itching one day to tell me that he quit smoking end of last year after he had hinted earlier in the year that this column was pushing him into the corner.
His testimony was that if devotion had not benefited anyone else, at least one person had benefited. He went on to tell his workmates, friends and family which brings us to our subject answerability and responsibility.
Today I will deal with effects of your actions and next week I will talk about accountability. I say to the gentleman, congratulations for a bold decision, but note your world is watching you; some wishing you to fall back with the usual saying, We knew it would not last.
As they say, destroy the bridge so that you cannot cross back. I am working on two senior staffers at some company who I always see outside on smoking break when I visit. I wont go deeper into the lost man-hours and reduced life expectancy.
In fact I pray for special anointing to flow to deal with addictions as you read this either on the internet or on hard copy. I ask the Intercessors of this column to loose the fire of God to deal with all forms of addiction; drugs, pornography, food etc.
Sometimes the wrong decisions you make and the actions you take dont affect you as much as they do your family, neighbour, society, country and the world at large indirectly through ripple effect.
I have heard of people getting sick and dying due to passive smoking. If you contract tuberculosis or any other opportunistic infection and money is channelled to medication it means less food, clothing and school fees for the family.
Before you do anything, question your actions and motive and consider others. We see well-to-do gentlemen leaving the house early Saturday or Sunday morning purporting to buy the newspaper and eggs or bacon for breakfast while the family cleans up and readies to go to church.
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What happens with the money at the bottle store is anybodys guess. Having left home without bathing, they only return in the wee hours of the following morning with such a stench.
The ladies of the night wear a choking perfume that smells like the injection for fake embalming and embrace these reprobate men. The following morning they go back to deal with hangover and brag among themselves saying they dont even know how they got home.
What a sorry sight! Fathers, be responsible. Consider the ulcer, the increase in blood pressure and the heart ailments you are inflicting on your innocent family.
Wives and children; I will come back for you next week; the honeymoon is not very long. When you jump the gate and go out with that man, old enough to be your father, it sounds all good, but your world will crumble when that backyard abortion fails. You encroach on the peace of others.
Grandfathers and mothers have to leave the fields and sell goats or chicken to get bus fare to visit you in hospital. Even if you commit suicide, you are not lessening the burden on your family. They incur funeral expenses even if your sugar daddy brings in a lorry full of cabbages and scuds.
I know that all of you want to live their lives free from being bothered by others. Some want to be their own bosses without being answerable to anyone. While it is good for everyone to mind her /his business, it is advisable to know that your actions affect others.
To make sure we dont influence the world badly, the Bible makes sure that each and everyone should be accountable and Romans 13:1 says: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.
For there is no power, but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. We dont want to see renegade broken arrows shooting willy-nilly.
Sometimes you are even answerable to those below you. Parents are regulated to some extent by their children. Try to please your teenager with that expensive dress for a birthday present without their nod; you will appear like you are coming from Mars.
While on clothing please and I say please, read an article in the Standard of 1521 January 2012, in the entertainment section titled, Grooming: Dos and donts about underwear.
Whatever you decide to do in life, always consider others. Remember the golden rule in Matthew 7:12: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Dont forget how Jesus summarises the Bible in Matthew 22:36-40: Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
All Scripture quotations are from the King James Version of the Bible.
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