Archive for September 8th, 2009
Are you tempted to make bad decisions in order to succeed? (86-2)
Every leader will make mistakes. The effects of those mistakes can be minimized by a humble spirit that allows acknowledgement of the mistake and that allows forward progress to be restarted or it can be compounded by pride that demands to hold on to bad decisions and continues to put actions to the original error in judgment. Read 1 Samuel 14:24-46.
Jonathan and his armor bearer had separated themselves from the rest of Israel’s army and had attacked a Philistine outpost. God used Jonathan’s victory over this small contingent of Philistine soldiers to create confusion among the rest of the Philistine troops and put the entire Philistine army into turmoil. The confusion was so wide spread that when “Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in total confusion, striking each other with their swords” (v 20).