Active Leadership of the Lord

UV 1320/10,000 Active Leadership of the Lord
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalm 32 v 8
Very often in life we take this promise of the Lord for granted and approach Him only when we have messed up on our own, relying on our own native intelligence and knowledge. In matters of knowledge, experiments are more apt. In matters of faith and human life, experience is far more significant. So much is given to the domain of human knowledge and understanding and the rest is all the domain of faith and revelation. A good part of our lives rest in the latter domain. This is the kingdom of God. It intersects every day with our lives. We should actively seek instruction at the feet of the Lord. We should learn for He promises to teach us the way we should go every day of our lives. He will guide us with His caring eye upon us. As we err and fall, His eye will tell us to pick ourselves up and walk again.

Only God knows the totality of our past, our present and future. He factors all of that into every direction He gives us. He knows our strengths, weaknesses and desires. He knows our opportunities and threats. We should follow only God as our one true and trustworthy leader. He is the visionary who gives sight to the blind following Him. Even the ablest and best of human leaders are blind. They do not know the shape of the future. As Peter Drucker said, “ The only things we know about the future that we know is that it will be different.” By definition God is the only true leader for humanity. A leader gives directional instruction while a manager gives instructional directions. A leader tells us and shows us the direction in which we should go while a manager gives us the instructions we should follow while on the way.

The Lord is real, active and practical. He wants to engage with our lives in active, practical and real ways. He instructs us from His word. We need to listen to His Word, meditate on it to understand and apply it to our lives in every possible way. We need to value it more than silver or gold. We need to store it in our hearts like treasure. We need to make it our roadmap and the compass of our lives. The eye the Lord keeps on us is the eye of protection, guidance, care and love. We need to be spiritually sensitive to pick up the signals from His eye movements.

Prateep V Philip