Thursday, October 5, 2017

Tag: Healthy Leadership for mankind has a Healthy Relationship with God - Proverbs 28

Proverbs 28:2
When a land transgresses, it has many rulers,
but with a man of understanding and knowledge,
its stability will long continue.

Proverbs 28:12
When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves.

Proverbs 28:15
Like a roaring lion or a charging bear
is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Proverbs 28:28
When the wicked rise, people hide themselves,
but when they perish, the righteous increase.

Tag:  Healthy Leadership for mankind has a Healthy Relationship with God. 


When we read leadership books we seldom, if ever, if ever hear about the relationship to good leadership with godliness.   People who are greedy, self-seeking, promotion driven, and/or power hungry are not good leaders.  They think they are.  They are also given leadership positions.   We actually assess leaders with assessment that measure their acumen for drive, structure and analysis.  These assessments are not wrong, but they would not pass the test Solomon has laid out for us in the above passage.   As we read the above proverbs (and these are the ones out of chapter 28 ONLY), it is evident that Solomon draws a strong and bold line between leadership and righteousness.   There are many ways to define leadership.  Not one leadership guru defines it the same.  But, Solomon is crystal clear:  Great leaders are righteous and that righteousness produces understanding and wisdom and that makes for happy and healthy followers.  When a “man” of understanding (another word in Solomon’s vocabulary for godliness) is leading, good thins happen around him.   If we want to be good leaders we must find a way to connect our leading with our following God.   We can’t expect to lead men if we aren’t following hard after God.  

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