Leadership and the King

“God cares about honesty in the workplace; your business is his business. Good leaders abhor wrongdoing of all kinds; sound leadership has a moral foundation. Good leaders cultivate honest speech; they love advisors who tell them the truth. An intemperate leader wreaks havoc in lives; you're smart to stay clear of someone like that. Good-tempered leaders invigorate lives; they're like spring rain and sunshine.” Proverbs 16:11-15 (The Message)

Some say that ‘character doesn’t matter’ but without character what do you have? You have hallow words and empty promises that today sound good but tomorrow leave you searching and so very many hurting.

Today the hearts of men and women are searching for leadership, for character. The kind of leadership that makes wrongs… right and that stand on principle and not shady-policy. An influence that beckons us back towards righteousness and towards nobility.

A nobility found not by looking down on others or using others but by looking up to God for answers. Answers that lead us to bent knees and humble hearts and a reliance not on ourselves but on God. For it is God who raises up leadership, they are not decreed by human desire (Proverbs 8:15) they are for the King’s use.

When leadership is lacking, ‘when all seem to do what is right in their own eyes’ (Judges 17:6) then we can follow the leadership of this world or we can seek and search out the ways of God. The ways of God that calls us to honesty, to truth, and to temperance. A call that whispers and warns us to ‘come up higher’ and not be entangled with this world’s troubles. A call to righteous living that is based not on feelings but on faith. A faith that sees the glimmering promises and awards of today in our rearview mirror as we await and strive forward and towards the coming King and the truth that only he can bring.

Our King is coming. Are you ready? (Matthew 24:30-31)