Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child,
and your princes feast in the morning!
Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of the nobility,
and your princes feast at the proper time,
for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Through sloth the roof sinks in,
and through indolence the house leaks.
In the days that Solomon wrote the above words, it would be important to know about the construction of the roof of a home. The roofs were not made of metal, shingles or stucco. The roof would have been clay and branches. They had to be constantly repaired and kept from leaking. To allow a small leak to go in repaired was to invite the entire rook to collapse. Solomon is talk to us about leadership who ignore an issue and allow a small leak to bring down their kingdom, their organization, their home. While the leaders are drinking and celebrating and living in debauchery, the roof is leaking and bringing future destruction. But, the nation, organization, or home is “happy” when the leadership acts like “nobility” and in strength and not in “drunkenness.” The attention to small leaks in an organization is vital to the survival of that organization. Churches ought not allow small leaks to fester. They will bring the house down. It is a leader’s role to make sure these small leaks are cared for before they amount to something bigger and more dangerous to the entire Body.
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