Archive for September 9th, 2009
What would it take for you to disobey God? (86-3)
Along with the costs of leadership come many opportunities. Some of these opportunities will be positive and some will be negative. Many leaders have access to information or financial resources that they could use to their personal advantage. Other leaders travel widely and somewhat anonymously and have opportunity to compromise purity without anyone knowing. Others could use the power of their position for their own benefit. Whether the temptation is money, sex or power there will always be temptation for leaders to sell themselves out for less than God’s best. Read 1 Samuel 15:1-23.
The Lord could not have been more specific. Speaking through the prophet Samuel, God commanded Saul to destroy the Amalekites and everything they owned; no one and no thing was to be spared.
Tags: Compromise, Pride, Temptation