ALL Issues Becoming EQUAL, as is shown in the Kings of Israel, exactly where only 3 of 42 had been of great report, all leaders are destined to decline into decadence if they do not intentionally arrest the slide. It is a slide of human-produced proportions as soon as that human Getting loses sight of the original vision to serve their individuals.
Kings and other leaders begin nicely by serving the law, just before they make the law, which precedes their Getting the law, and the final nail is hammered into the coffin of decline after they turn into their own god.
But it does not need to be this way.
Very good leaders will sense their own propensity to stray from God in their leadership; a sign of which is to surround themselves with a mutual admiration society, which serves only to comfort their ego. Then they have ceased to be leaders.
Leaders who go on such a bent of a slide finish up gaining the complete planet only to lose their own souls. They get also busy to attend to the critical relational matters. They come to be consumed in creating the empire and overlook that God is an all-consuming fire who demands 1st spot for the leader's own superior.
God desires from every single single a single of us almost everything. Every little thing significantly less is not adequate. If we stray for a day, a week, a month, or a year is irrelevant. Our humanity is bound to stray into idolatry.
We have to place measures into spot so we consistently acknowledge this truth - "I am the largest dilemma I have."
The winner is seldom content for pretty extended. Accomplishment as we define It really is a perverted thing.
A.W. Tozer (1897-1963) was appropriate as soon as he mentioned, "No man is worthy to succeed unless he is prepared to fail." But we need Factors our own way. And the leader who is deluded desires increasingly, like an addict, for Points to go their way.
A leader will have to consistently ask God, "Lord, exactly where is my sacred 'higher location' [of idolatry] that I defend from you?" "What do I refuse to give up - that which comes amongst me and you?"
The heart of the human trouble, as Canon J. John when mentioned, is the difficulty of the human heart. The Holy Spirit is constantly saying, "Look up!" But humanity is normally saying, "Look down!" Exactly where is heaven and exactly where is hell?
For also extended we have undermined the awesomeness of God. We have grow to be anesthetised to excellent instruction and we were blessed by as well numerous superior Items that several of us believe we never want God, even if we profess faith in him. This only sends us into spiritual decline. And life becomes a chasing of the wind. A miserable life.
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The very best Points a leader can do are wake up and remain awake. They need to stay placing God initially by Becoming rid of the higher locations (idols) in their lives.
© 2014 S. J. Wickham.
Acknowledgement: to the heart and wisdom of Peter Pollock.
Steve Wickham is a Baptist Pastor who holds Degrees in Science, Divinity, and Counselling. Steve writes at: http://epitemnein-epitomic.blogspot.com.au/ and http://tribework.blogspot.com.au/
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