1Sa 30:6 ~ "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters:but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God." (KJV)
Over the past few days I have stuck on this verse, it keeps ringing in my head...David was distressed not because of his OWN doing, but because of the people...The reason he was not there to protect the women and children was because he was out fighting another army in service to the people.
CATCH THIS: THE VERY SAME PEOPLE THAT DAVID SOUGHT TO HELP WHERE THE SAME PEOPLE BRINGING HIM TO DISTRESS. ISN'T IT FUNNY HOW IN LIFE THE VERY PEOPLE YOU SEEK TO HELP, ARE THE VERY SAME PEOPLE WHO DON'T APPRECIATE IT. Instead of saying 'YOU WERE NOT THERE BECAUSE OF US, TELL US HOW WE CAN HELP IN BRINGING OUR CHILDREN AND WIVES BACK HOME' THEY WOULD RATHER STONE HIM TO DEATH...THEY DO NOT HAVE A SOLUTION TO THEIR CURRENT PROBLEM YET THEY WANT TO STONE THE MAN WHO GOD'S HAND IS UPON, THE MAN WHO WALKS WITH GOD FOR NOT BEING THERE WHEN THEY NEEDED HIM...
NB: LEADERSHIP IS NOT EASY. IT'S A LONELY AND TOUGH ROAD.
THE PEOPLE YOU LEAD WILL BE THE SAME PEOPLE EXPECTING A SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEMS FROM YOU ON ONE HAND YET THROWING VERBAL/PHYSICAL STONES AT YOU ON THE OTHER. IF YOU ARE IN A POSSITION OF LEADERSHIP TAKE HEART, DAVID ENDURED AND SO SHALL YOU ENDURE.
"DAVID ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE LORD!".
AS AND LEADER SOMETIMES YOU HIT ROCK BOTTOM WITH NO ONE THERE TO HEAR THE CRIES OF YOUR SOUL...IT'S YOU ALONE WITH GOD. THE BEST PRACTISE TO LEARN IS TO ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD, TO LEARN TO FIND SOLACE IN THE ARMS OF THE MASTER, TO FIND COMFORT IN THE SOFT HEART OF THE UNCHANGING GOD.
GOD'S STRENGTH IS MADE PERFECT IN YOUR WEAKNESS, BY ENCOURAGING YOURSELF IN THE LORD YOU LET GOD BE GOD AND LET HIM HEAL, SOLVE, DELIVER, UNRAVEL AND ISSUE THAT EATS AT YOUR SOUL. HE IS A GOD A COMFORTING AND ENCOURAGING GOD!!
