Saturday, October 24, 2009

Leaders lacking Leadership

As I read through 1 Kings I see the obedience of Solomon and his wisdom in solving matters and how God deeply blessed him. But what happens when people begin to become pompous about their position of leadership? How many people in leadership positions remain humble throughout the whole entire reign. In Kings very few leaders stayed walking closely with the Lord, Saul and David. Beginning in Chapter 11 we begin to Solomon no longer walking with the Lord and sinning in a multitude of ways including having 700 wives and 300 concubines. God always brings destruction on those who don't follow him. Solomon's destruction is the reason that the Kingdom split into two, Judah and Israel. If we fastforward 2900 years does this still happen. Yes, it does and in our society today our sin is creating a more monsterous world. Parents aren't leading, being examples, and their children are turning to drugs, sex, and alcohol. Men are called to be leaders in relationships and they are leading into sexual relations outside of marriage and clearly destruction of divorce is brought about due to not changing from ways and walking with the Lord. Church priests and pastors are not being Godly examples and people aren't deepening in their relationship with the Lord, because there's not the annointing of the Holy Spirit in the pastor's sermon. Like those who worshiped Baal in Kings without results. Oprah is a good present day Baal, how many are following her?