The Importance of Accountability!

The importnace of accountability was made very clear to me today while reading Daniel 4. This chapter talks about Mr. Neb(See Simon Says post) and a dream he has. Once again he has a strange dream and none of his peeps(magician, diviners, ect.) can interpret the dream. But Daniel can with God's help. At the beginning of the chapter Mr. Neb calls God the MOST HIGH, and he says, "How great are his signs, how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; his dominion endures from generation to generation." Sounds like he really loves God, right?? Daniel interprets this strange dream Mr. Neb has and Daniel basically tells Mr. Neb, "You aren't truly calling God the MOST HIGH GOD! Get rid of the pride and be humbled. You better get your life straight with God, or God will strip you of everything!" Mr. Neb heard Daniel but he eventually he forgot what Daniel had said. Just 12 months later, Mr. Neb was stripped of everything. Jesus knew that Mr. Neb needed to be stripped of everything before he could truly say that God is the MOST HIGH God because no one was helping him get rid of the pride and allowing himself to be humbled. My thoughts are, What if Mr. Neb would have been held accountable to what Daniel had said? What if someone would have taken the time to sit with him one on one and help him to realize how important Jesus is? Would Mr. Neb have been able to turn his life around and live for God without having to do it the hard way, by being stipped of everything??? What if the one way for Christians these days to truly live an active life of worship and be the Shadrack's, Meschacks, and Abednegos of today is through accountablitly?? I know that I can't today it all by myself. No one can. That is why I believe accountablitly is so important. I have/and still am learning so much from Jesus but it is also important to have a person on earth who can step out and tell you when you are straying from the path of righteousness, or who can tell you what an amazing job you are doing at something!!! Either way, accounability is important!!!