If you are a leader, remember that a leader takes decisions. Here are some amazing examples:
1. When God realised that man was lonely, he took a decision to create a woman.
?And the Lord God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.? (Genesis 2:18)
2. When the Earth was full of wickedness, God took a decision to kill all the human beings and leave only Noah and his family alive.
?And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.?
(Genesis 6:5-7)
3. When God saw Noah?s sacrifice, he took a decision not to destroy all living things anymore.
?And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man?s sake; for the imagination of man?s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.? (Genesis 8:21)
4. When God saw the homosexuality in Sodom and Gomorrah, he took a decision to eliminate that city forever.
?And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.?
(Genesis 18:20-21)
5. When God saw that the Israelites were suffering so much in Egypt, he took a decision to rescue them from the hand of Pharaoh.
?And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.? (Exodus 2:23-25)
6. When God saw that Lucifer was rebellious, he took a decision to cast him out of Heaven.
?Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.? (Ezekiel 28:17, 18)
7. When God saw that all of his creation was going to be lost through sin, he took a decision to send his Son to win them back.
?For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.? (John 3:16, 17)
Are you a leader? Are you aspiring to be a leader? If so, then welcome to the world of taking difficult decisions.
By Dag Heward-Mills
