Anglican Devotional 24 October 2023 – God Will Punish Unjust Leaders

The Daily Fountain Devotional of the Church Of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) 24 October 2023 – God Will Punish Unjust Leaders

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TOPIC: God Will Punish Unjust Leaders

READ: Micah 3 (NKJV)

And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: [Is it] not for you to know justice?

You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;

Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop [them] in pieces Like [meat] for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”

Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.

Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets Who make my people stray; Who chant “Peace” While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths:

“Therefore you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for them.

So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For [there is] no answer from God.”

But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.

Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice And pervert all equity,

Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:

Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, “Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.”

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, And the mountain of the temple Like the bare hills of the forest.

THE MESSAGE:

Leadership, at all levels, is expected to be just and rule in the fear of the Lord (2 Samuel 23:3).

Unfortunately, today, in the Church and secular world, leaders are unjust, selfish, self-centered and insensitive to the needs and plight of the people they rule over. In our text today, we see rulers of God’s people, (verses 1-4, 9-10), as well as prophets and priests (verses 5-7,11-12) who were after their own interests.

Are you a leader at any level? Remember that it is God who put you in that leadership position in order to help make life better for the people. If you are after your own interests, you will give account of how you abuse that God-given leadership responsibility entrusted unto you, one day. Just as God judged the unjust leaders in our text, He will also judge you one day.

PRAYER: O Lord, help me to be just and walk in Your fear as a leader in Jesus’ name, Amen.