The priests did not say, ‘Where is the LORD?’ – Jeremiah 2:8

The greatest failure in every generation since Jeremiah’s time is the same failure that Jeremiah points to, the failure of the leaders. Each person bears his or her own responsibility before God for their actions and attitudes, yet, leaders who fail to lead will be judged on more than their own personal walk with the Lord. Leaders who fail to lead are worse than no leaders at all.

The place of the leader is not to lay the burden of responsibility on the individual, but rather to actively draw others closer to God and further into their commitment to God. In order to do this the leader must be a seeker himself; asking for himself first and foremost: “Where is the LORD?”. We desperately need as of our churches leaders who are persistent seekers after God. Everything else about Christian leadership is secondary to this requirement for a leader cannot lead where he has not been himself.

Pray therefore for God commissioned leaders who are seeking God first, who say: “Where is the LORD?”.

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