“You willingly choose accountability when your desire for change eclipses your fear of being known” — anonymous (actually, someone probably did, in fact, claim to write this, but I don’t know who it was so I’m just saying it is anonymous)
Life is a series of decisions, anywhere from what to wear to work one day, or how to treat our spouses, or how much we are “open” with the people God has placed us in community with. That is why I find the above quote so meaningful… we want to change to the extent we have handed over our fears to God.
When we fear how people will respond to who we really are, we are less likely to show our true selves. To paraphrase a Shakespeare quote, when God gives us one face (truth), and we make ourselves another (lies, walls), we limit how much accountability we have in our lives. But when we crave the accountability, which can be needed for anything from the discipline of spending time with our families to struggling with sinful acts, we had better put people in our lives whom we can trust who will hold us accountable.
Be known.
