Daily Manna – March 11, 2016
Topic: Perfecting leadership
Reading: 1Chronicles 22
Scripture: And David commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying. (1Chron 22:17)
Note: Guided by experience and foresight, David managed to do a critical bridging job for Solomon, before the latter assumed the reign of leadership. In assembling the princes of Israel, David didn’t fail to remind them of the goodness of God, the unprecedented peace that they were enjoying as a nation and how God had given Israel favour to subdue the nations surrounding them.
David did not just try to railroad his way as a king in getting their support for his successor, Solomon. He actually sold to them the importance of the uniting force behind Israel as a nation, putting God in His rightful place in their minds and in their hearts. David was a leader who knew that the ungratefulness of man could possibly lead him astray in forgetting God during situations when the peace and prosperity that God has given us is taken for granted as the normal thing to be expected.
Many believers have made shipwreck of their faith through this classic example of forgetfulness and putting God in His rightful position. Many nations, including Ghana have fallen prey to this stereotypical problem of ignoring God when things are going right for them. Ghana’s leadership during the first republic began on the wrong footnote by professing the need to “seek first the political kingdom, and all other things shall be added to us.”
The result of this confession was coup d’etat after coup d’etat in Ghana, until we ended up proscribing three constitutions of the first, second and third republics through coup d’etat. Poverty, hunger, stagnation, under-development, debt-ridden economy and joblessness have become the bane of Ghana; now struggling to hold the centre in a fourth republic. Until Ghana put God in His proper position in this nation, we shouldn’t be surprised to keep gyrating in cluelessness and economic conundrum.
Food for thought: We need to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all other things shall be added to us.
Declaration: Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of the Lord God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the Lord. (1Chron 22:19)
© Author: Rev Fred Aboe
