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Leadership Failure and Repentance

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MEDITATION

Leadership Failure and Repentance
2 KINGS 12:1-16

1. Leadership failure
a. Imperfect, partial obedience and compliance to the word of God v3. "Just a little" worldliness, sin, compromise and permissiveness  by the leader and the led.
b. Inability to command full obedience to God's standard v3.
Q What are the reasons why leaders at times chicken out from full compliance and enforcement of God's standard? It takes courage to do and enforce full obedience to God, Joshua 1:6,7.
c. Leadership negligence: The temple was left in a state of disrepair for 23 years v6. Does it mean he was not going to the temple for 23 years? Procrastination? Busy with less important things etc?
e. Poor supervision of the subordinate's responsibilities vv6,7. The priestly responsibility was not done for 23 years and the king kept mute until after 23 years!
e. Delay in taking action on matters of emergency vv6,7.
f. Wastage of divinely given resources vv7,8. They had the money but delayed using it for the purpose meant for out of negligence.



Q What other leadership failures could you observe in the text?
2. Leadership repentance
a. The leaders repented from the sin of negligence, wastages of God's resources, unnecessary delay in doing what was right, poor mentorship and supervision, half hearted obedience to God, feebleness in enforcing the perfect will of God, etc. 
b. Q Outline how they demonstrated repentance in the text. 
Ponder on where you may be found wanting as a leader because all your actions are in eternal records waiting for the time of reckoning. "Every man's work shall be tested..." and rewarded accordingly.

Ask for forgiveness where you are wanting as a leader, secular or spiritual🙏
Pray that God will teach and train you to be an effective and faithful leader in God's hand🙏
Pray for your spiritual leaders that the mercy and grace of God will multiply in their lives 🙏
Pray for our secular leaders that the Spirit of God will rule their decisions even their will will be overruled🙏
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