Do you include God as an integral part of your leadership? (165-5)

Wise Christian leaders include God as an integral part of their leadership. They have a high level of dependence on God in their attitude and actions. Read Lamentations 5:14-22.

The leaders of the nation of Judah failed to recognize the authority of God over their nation and that oversight led them to make decisions and condone actions that broke their covenant with God. Jeremiah confesses the sin of the people and also acknowledges that God reigns forever and will ultimately restore what has been lost. Successful Christian leaders don’t depend on their own strength and wisdom but on the sovereign God.

In the abstract, it is hard to see how any knowledgeable Christian leader could trust their own instincts rather than depend on God for wisdom, but we live in a fallen world where the deceiver has tactics that allow a leader to feel morally superior even to God’s wisdom. If today’s leaders don’t have an accountability system with trusted Christian partners, they can be quickly lured away from trusting God just as Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. The Bible is clear that the autonomous mindset is a mark of foolishness because it ignores a leader’s fundamental need to depend on God. Wise leaders recognize God as an active leader on their leadership team.

Romans 1:21 “For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.”