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Wisdom, Chapter 6, Verse 7-8 7 For the Ruler of all shows no partiality, nor does he  fear  greatness, because he himself made the great as well as the small, and provides for all alike;   8  but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends. God does not fear to make men great; but for those who are made great they must be responsible, humble and fair for those in command are thoroughly judged by God. We must be of the mindset as spoken by Charles Mayes:  “Make sure the thing your living for is worth dying for.”  And as leaders we must make sure that when we send others into harm’s way that it would be only if we ourselves would be willing to die to get it done. As confirmed members of the body of Christ it is our duty; no, our sacred honor to give meaning to the words of the psalmist: “Defend the lowly and fatherless; render justice to the afflicted and needy. Rescue the lowly and poor; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” (Ps. 82:3-4) ...

1 SAMUEL, Chapter 15, Verse 24 Saul admitted to Samuel: “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the command of the L ORD and your instructions. I feared the people and obeyed them. There are three lessons we can learn from the life of King Saul. First, obey the Lord and seek to do His will. From the very start of his reign, Saul had the perfect opportunity to be the benchmark by which all future kings could be measured. All he had to do was to seek the Lord wholeheartedly, obey His commandments and align his will with that of God’s, and his rule would have been a God-honoring one. However, like so many others, Saul chose a different path and strayed away from God. We find a perfect example of his disobedience in the incident where God commanded him to kill all the Amalekites, but Saul kept the king and some of the spoils of war. Saul compounded his troubles by lying to Samuel over the incident. He claimed that it was the people that saved all of the animals (1Samuel 15) . This...