Have you ever made a mistake while trying to lead other people?\u00c2\u00a0 Odds are that if you have been leading anyone for any length of time, then you have made mistakes that not only made you look back, but could have caused damage to the group.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaders make mistakes all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 We see it in the media, we see it in our churches and we see it in our personal lives.<\/p>\n
Over the last week, we have been looking at the life of King Hezekiah, one of the best leaders Israel was blessed to be led by.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a man of vision, courage and was a servant-leader.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a great man of God who rallied the peoples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hearts back to the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though Hezekiah did many great things for the Lord, he, like all of us, made some leadership blunders.<\/p>\n
One of the greatest blunders that he made came at a time when he was recovering from a sickness.\u00c2\u00a0 He had just been miraculously healed by the Lord and then comes a team from Babylon.\u00c2\u00a0 This group of men was representing the King of Babylon and they were coming to celebrate Hezekiah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s
\nhealing.\u00c2\u00a0 They brought letters from the King and presents to show their concern for the leader of Israel.\u00c2\u00a0 Then came Hezekiah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mistake.<\/p>\n
In a moment of weakness, a moment of pure ignorance, King Hezekiah decides to show these foreigners all the treasures of the Kingdom.\u00c2\u00a0 He paraded them through his own home, where they saw paintings, furniture and lots of women.\u00c2\u00a0 He paraded them through the Temple, where they saw gold and valuables that were dedicated to the Lord.\u00c2\u00a0 They saw it all and wanted it all.\u00c2\u00a0 A short time later, an army from Babylon came and stole everything, leaving the people with nothing.<\/p>\n
It was a blunder\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6a mistake.\u00c2\u00a0 He weak, ignorant and was not protective of what the Lord gave him.\u00c2\u00a0 He lost it all from one small blunder.<\/p>\n
What is that one small blunder that could cost you everything?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a small sin that you think no one will know about?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it those thoughts you have that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153will never be acted upon?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a relationship that seems harmless now?<\/p>\n
Take a lesson from King Hezekiah.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a great man, a great king, a great follower of God and yet one small blunder destroyed all that he had.<\/p>\n
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Have you ever made a mistake while trying to lead other people?\u00c2\u00a0 Odds are that if you have been leading anyone for any length of time, then you have made mistakes that not only made you look back, but could have caused damage to the group.\u00c2\u00a0 Leaders make mistakes all the time.\u00c2\u00a0 We see it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ernestsmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}