LET’S TALK LEADERSHIP
Is the purpose of leadership to influence a person, or persons to think a certain way, or to do a specific thing?
I would say, always the former, and sometimes the former and the latter.
Leadership is about fulfilling the mission given to you by God. You are here for His Purpose, not yours. God is the Creator, and your Creator. The Bible tells us He knew you before you were in the womb. Do you understand what that means? You existed somewhere before you existed here. God created your spirit, your soul, before He gave you your body.
God is wondrous. He Created all that you see around you. Every blade of grass, every flower, every ant, and here’s the absolutely unbelievable part, each thing has a purpose, His Purpose. How great God must be, how awesome, how complete, how prevailing. Like a Great Author writing every letter, every comma, every period. God has a Plan, a Divine Plan. His manifestation of that Plan, like a great script is Providence. All that is, is God. As the author He knows all, directs all, from start to finish.
Why does God do that?
Answer: I don’t know. He’s God, I am not.
What I believe is here and now is not all there is. Here and now is an oven, a place where God makes things. What the end purpose of those things He Makes is known only by Him.
So back to leadership.
There is a grand story being played out on earth. In that story is good and evil. Good is God, bad is Satan. Leadership is a tool used by God and Satan to marshal human forces here on earth. Leadership is an intangible, a quality of character, it is a gift from God given to some, maybe even all, in some amount. Some have more, some less. But, it is the gold standard for organizing human beings to act, to behave, to think. Like the air, leadership is everywhere human beings are, and if it is not on behalf of God, it is on behalf of Satan. There is no neutral leadership.
In America, at its earliest, man knew God, and knew the Bible was His Word. The Holy Spirit played a great role in directing people and events to bring Columbus to the new world. And from that point forward, God’s Providence guided discovery, exploration, settlement, colonization and the creation of the states until revolution led to war and the making of the United States. The Founders, and the founders knew God. The Founders were the names in history you know, the founders are the millions of names you don’t know, but are the people who built the communities, states, and finally America.
God had saved the western hemisphere for a purpose, and at least to the end of the Cold War in 1991 America’s purpose was almost self-evident.
Leadership had been God’s tool. In the Bible we are told God chooses the leaders. He chooses the good leaders, and He chooses the bad leaders. And like the wheat stalks blowing in the fields, first this way and then that, with the prevailing wind, human beings also blow this way and that. What was once good and right becomes wrong, and what is and always was wrong, is becoming right for now.
Like a ship in a storm, America is being tossed. The impulses are rapid, with irresistible force, chaotic, unpredictable, and wild. Like the Apostles in the boat, with Jesus sleeping, we are afraid. But God is here, and what occurs is at His Direction, not that of Satan, though Satan thinks he is director.
Leadership has two choices today. Leaders can panic, react to each wave, to each force, or leadership can rely on God, spend time in seeking God, praising God for all He has done for America. Some problems like immigration seem out of control. We look to control, but instead maybe we need to look to God and have confidence in His Plan.
The mistake America is making, is the one made by Israel. We think we are in control. We have turned from God. The decisions we make are the ones embracing evil, and calling evil right. God gave us a manual to live by. The Founders/founders thought so much of the Bible that great Bible Societies sprang up all over the new born United States. Thomas Jefferson himself, selected from the Bible the lessons of Jesus to be given to native Americans. Congress appropriated money for churches and religious men to help native Americans assimilate into America.
Leadership must come from the descendants of the founders. The entire infrastructure of government is corrupt. The Courts, the judges, that came from Moses are now from Bail. Our representatives represent our worst features, not our best. We depend on a President whose heart may be looking towards God, but his some of his words and actions are acid. The great failure of America took decades to blossom. At one time – we were a Christian nation, our churches were our nation’s conscience. The Bible was the cornerstone.
Today we must return from whence we came. Lead, get out your Bible and read it. Carry it where you go. And head to church, seek out a church that is of the Word, and not the wind. Understand your place, repent, go to God for the sake of your children and this nation’s future.
Mark Vogl
johnyreb43@yahoo.com
I would say, always the former, and sometimes the former and the latter.
Leadership is about fulfilling the mission given to you by God. You are here for His Purpose, not yours. God is the Creator, and your Creator. The Bible tells us He knew you before you were in the womb. Do you understand what that means? You existed somewhere before you existed here. God created your spirit, your soul, before He gave you your body.
God is wondrous. He Created all that you see around you. Every blade of grass, every flower, every ant, and here’s the absolutely unbelievable part, each thing has a purpose, His Purpose. How great God must be, how awesome, how complete, how prevailing. Like a Great Author writing every letter, every comma, every period. God has a Plan, a Divine Plan. His manifestation of that Plan, like a great script is Providence. All that is, is God. As the author He knows all, directs all, from start to finish.
Why does God do that?
Answer: I don’t know. He’s God, I am not.
What I believe is here and now is not all there is. Here and now is an oven, a place where God makes things. What the end purpose of those things He Makes is known only by Him.
So back to leadership.
There is a grand story being played out on earth. In that story is good and evil. Good is God, bad is Satan. Leadership is a tool used by God and Satan to marshal human forces here on earth. Leadership is an intangible, a quality of character, it is a gift from God given to some, maybe even all, in some amount. Some have more, some less. But, it is the gold standard for organizing human beings to act, to behave, to think. Like the air, leadership is everywhere human beings are, and if it is not on behalf of God, it is on behalf of Satan. There is no neutral leadership.
In America, at its earliest, man knew God, and knew the Bible was His Word. The Holy Spirit played a great role in directing people and events to bring Columbus to the new world. And from that point forward, God’s Providence guided discovery, exploration, settlement, colonization and the creation of the states until revolution led to war and the making of the United States. The Founders, and the founders knew God. The Founders were the names in history you know, the founders are the millions of names you don’t know, but are the people who built the communities, states, and finally America.
God had saved the western hemisphere for a purpose, and at least to the end of the Cold War in 1991 America’s purpose was almost self-evident.
Leadership had been God’s tool. In the Bible we are told God chooses the leaders. He chooses the good leaders, and He chooses the bad leaders. And like the wheat stalks blowing in the fields, first this way and then that, with the prevailing wind, human beings also blow this way and that. What was once good and right becomes wrong, and what is and always was wrong, is becoming right for now.
Like a ship in a storm, America is being tossed. The impulses are rapid, with irresistible force, chaotic, unpredictable, and wild. Like the Apostles in the boat, with Jesus sleeping, we are afraid. But God is here, and what occurs is at His Direction, not that of Satan, though Satan thinks he is director.
Leadership has two choices today. Leaders can panic, react to each wave, to each force, or leadership can rely on God, spend time in seeking God, praising God for all He has done for America. Some problems like immigration seem out of control. We look to control, but instead maybe we need to look to God and have confidence in His Plan.
The mistake America is making, is the one made by Israel. We think we are in control. We have turned from God. The decisions we make are the ones embracing evil, and calling evil right. God gave us a manual to live by. The Founders/founders thought so much of the Bible that great Bible Societies sprang up all over the new born United States. Thomas Jefferson himself, selected from the Bible the lessons of Jesus to be given to native Americans. Congress appropriated money for churches and religious men to help native Americans assimilate into America.
Leadership must come from the descendants of the founders. The entire infrastructure of government is corrupt. The Courts, the judges, that came from Moses are now from Bail. Our representatives represent our worst features, not our best. We depend on a President whose heart may be looking towards God, but his some of his words and actions are acid. The great failure of America took decades to blossom. At one time – we were a Christian nation, our churches were our nation’s conscience. The Bible was the cornerstone.
Today we must return from whence we came. Lead, get out your Bible and read it. Carry it where you go. And head to church, seek out a church that is of the Word, and not the wind. Understand your place, repent, go to God for the sake of your children and this nation’s future.
Mark Vogl
johnyreb43@yahoo.com
posted by Chuck Demastus at 7:23 AM
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