When Almighty God created this world everything was created through the Word, and john explains to us and teaches in the Gospel which bares his name that that Word was the Son of God, who became Jesus Christ.
The New Testament speaks about man becoming a new creation and it is Jesus Christ who is involved again. Jesus spoke about this in that profound conversation he held with Nicodemus. It is wise to read and study this.
The more we read the Bible, the more we see and understand that God does nothing except through Jesus Christ. Jesus is unique. There is no leader comes near him in leadership.
Which leader can offer 'new birth' and make a man a new creation and forgive sin, and then give direction and guidance for the rest of his life along with equipping and anointing power? In Jesus Christ we have unique leadership with qualities and characteristics that affect and influence every area of life, and these are so necessary.
In Jesus Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, and God is so willing to help us in all our problems and difficulties and the challenges which confront us in life.
In a world where we are witnessing so much greed and corruption at all levels, but particularly in governmental and leadership positions, we need to know that there is a leader who can deliver and release us from all this.
Corrupt leaders motivated by selfishness and driven on by sin will be found and discovered one day. There is nothing surer. God has said in his word, "Behold your sins will find you out". This is much more than a man's sins being discovered and uncovered and found out. He is found out! He is discovered and revealed.
Many in the business and economic and financial world have found that to be so very true over these three or four years. Man cannot run away and hide from what God has said. If only those in business and banking leadership had paid closer attention to what God had said it would have saved them and their families from so much heartache.
In Jesus Christ we see service and serving combined with compassion and self-sacrifice and love. This requires strong leadership. Jesus was no wimp. Jesus Christ was the very opposite.
It takes real manliness to follow Jesus Christ because it can involve challenging sin in the lives of those who think they are so clever and so powerful and so influential.
Introducing Almighty God and Jesus Christ into some conversations today can give rise to a wave of embarrassment or even laughter and ridicule.
God is concerned that we be saved and rescued from all these unnecessary problems and painful conflicts.
Can you be a reconciler? Do you have the strong leadership qualities required to reverse what has been going on over these past years, particularly in the banking and financial world, where the love of money has become a powerful evil root?
Just as God loved unfaithful Israel, he loves those who have made such a mess of things and caused others such appalling suffering.
Can you arise and become a leader who reconciles where there is conflict and give moral and spiritual light where there has been the darkness of highly shady dealings?
Can you? Will you?
Sandy Shaw
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