2023 Week 6 Filipino Value Focus: ACCOUNTABILITY

Imagine the inspection day when auditors come to our of5ice and account our output for the whole year. Is it not pressuring? How much more if one day, we face our Creator to give an account of how we lived our lives on earth?

There is no need to go far from our own selves to understand the real meaning of accountability. First, let us account ourselves as humans “created in the image and likeness of God.” Accountability is protecting the nature of God in and through us. We are accountable to re5lect His light and truth. As such, our personal choices should not alter God’s nature in us. We must be accountable on what we think, say and do. Whether in the simple choice of food, words, or actions. As they say, “What you accept, eat or listen to becomes you.” A mentor once said, “If everything you receive changes you, what will you turn into? Be careful on who you become.”

As members of a family, we are accountable to our parents, siblings and children. As parents take into account the welfare of their children, children on the other hand must be accountable to their parents even when they get old. Such are natural obligations that does not need not be codi5ied into laws. Furthermore, as members of a community, we are accountable to our neighbors. Far from the principle of “to each his own,” we cannot say that we are not affected by what our neighbors build or do. In fact, the Word says, “When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.”

Lack of accountability leads to corruption. From the very nature of man, defilement can flow. A thief, no matter what is given him, remains a thief. No matter where you put him in life, he will steal nonetheless. In the workplace, a worker’s lack of accountability leads to wastage of office supplies, wastage of public funds and wastage of public trust. This leads to denial of the quality service that the Filipino people deserve. That is the reason why the 1987 Philippine Constitution gave primacy to accountability. As such, commissions and offices were created to ensure accountability in public service, just like the Commission on Audit and Office of the Ombudsman. Let us consider the little things we do in every sphere of our in5luence - at home, in our society, our workplace and in our nation. To what extent have we been accountable? Remember, ​the One who placed us in our positions have reasons and purpose. “So then each of us will give an account of himself to God” in due time.

ACTION PLAN

1. Account all your strengths, gifts, skills, talents and resources. Which are being optimized? Determine some steps to develop and multiply them.
   
2. Account the relationships God has given you, starting with your family. How are you taking care of them? What can you do to improve your relationship with them?
   
3. Account what you have done and have not done in ful5illing your agency’s vision, mission, and goals. What can you do to help accelerate the realization of these?
   
4. Account the blessings God has given you and our nation, the Philippines. What can you contribute to multiply them? 

DECLARATION

We are made in the image and likeness of God. He is holy and perfect, and so we must be. From now on, we will hold ourselves accountable in whatever we hear, say or do. In whatever aspect of life, personal or public, we will live with accountability. In our workplace, we hold ourselves accountable with the way we use our resources, the way we deliver services to the clients and the way we use our time. So help us God​

​PRAYER

Our Father in Heaven, thank You for teaching us accountability so that we can be responsible for our actions. Conform us into Your image and likeness more and more so that we can have dominion over everything - first over our lives, over our agency, and then over our nation. Let every blameful attitude in us be removed. Grant us the courage to own our actions, and to be accountable, obedient and righteous. Raise us up in such a way that when people look at us, they will see Your good works and glorify You. Let the Holy Spirit have His way. In the Name of our Most High God, amen.

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