Destined For Leadership

UV 1542/10000 Destined for Leadership
The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
Psalm 115 v 12

The Lord has His mind full of us and our well being. He is ever conscious of us. He is aware of our names, our needs, our challenges. His intellect is focussed on plans for our well being and future. His emotions are centred on our happiness. His decisions, actions and interventions are fixed on securing His will and desire for our lives. He is preoccupied with our present joy, future hope and eternal destiny. From His perspective, the eternal outweighs the past, present and future. This is the reason He allows a measure of suffering and trials in the lives of His chosen. Nothing in history or science or the contemporary compares with the value of the eternal. The price to live forever in the presence of God is very high and cannot be paid for by a man’s good deeds or by following certain rites, rules and rituals. It was paid for in full by His Son Jesus. He gave us this right to be part of Israel or the commonwealth of Israel and gave us the key of David- faith to enter therein. The blessing on David’s forefather Abraham was passed on to us by faith. We use the key of David to enter the house of Israel –to have a personal relationship with God. Now it is our turn to be mindful of God.

Only a true priest of God is always mindful of Him. We are to move from just being a believer of Jehovah or an Elijah to being part of the house of Aaron: a closer bonding with the Lord, dedicated and serving the Lord. We are called to continually worship the Lord, to intercede for those who have not yet entered the house of Israel. We exist not for our own pleasure but for the pleasure of the Lord. Our own blessing and rewards are like meat for sustenance of the worker. When we fulfil our onus or our responsibilities as a priest, He gives us a bonus- or what is good for us and our families. He gives us the anointing He gave Aaron and the anointing He gave David. We need to have the heart of sacrifice of a priest, the reverence for God that a priest has. God is our employer. He pays our wages. We need to have the strength, boldness and courage of a king like David.

The Lord’s ear is always open to our prayers and cries of our hearts. He hears us even before we pray or a word is uttered from our mouths. He will bless us as He blessed Israel and as He blessed Aaron and his generations. The blessings of Israel are listed in the first fourteen verses of Deuteronomy 28. We are blessed wherever we are. We do not have to go in search to any place or person in pursuit of blessing. We are destined for increase. We are destined for safe keeping and security. We are destined for success in everything we do. We are destined for holiness. We are destined for true and blessed fame and true riches. We are destined to rule. We are destined for leadership and primacy. For these aspects of our destiny to be fulfilled, for our heritage to be claimed and enjoyed, we ought to be mindful of the commands and enthusiastic in believing and claiming the promises of God. We are destined to be in the presence of the Lord and to serve Him and His people. Our life will not be without struggles. But instead of struggling with God, we will only hereafter struggle with our common enemy and those of our own kind. Like Israel we will be surrounded by enemies of different kinds and few faithful friends. Like Joseph, we might be betrayed by our own brothers. Like Jesus, we might be let down by our own but each trial and struggle will make us better and not bitter for He is with us as Immanuel and Ebenezer. He will fight for us and give us testimonies out of all our tests and trials.

Prateep V Philip