Fairhaven Shorts 6-9-2024

Consequences of Choosing a King

What were those consequences? A king would take their sons for his service, whether that was military or to plow his lands and reap his harvest. Others he would use to make weapons of war.

He'll take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take your best fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants.

He will take 10% of your grain and vintage. He will take your servants and livestock for his own use.

God's Guidance in Leadership

Now, the books of Samuel 1 and 2 provide good and bad examples of leadership, and I suggest you go back and read those at some point this week.

But what we find is when leaders focused their attention on the Lord and saw their leadership roles as instruments of his glory, things worked out well and they flourished. However, when they abandoned the Lord and used their offices for their own gain, they failed.