 It has often been said that God promotes a person to the level of their own incompetence. In other words, God sometimes elevates people who are not sufficiently prepared to demonstrate His strength through their weakness.
While this does happen, it’s the exception, not the rule. More typically, preparation is essential to promotion. Moses endured forty years of preparation in the backside of the desert, and Joshua was prepared for another 40 years as his protégé. Samuel had his school of the prophets and Jesus had a three-year school for His disciples. Paul spent an unknown number of years in the Arabian desert and told his apprentice Timothy that “the man of God (should) be competent, equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3:17, ESV) In other words, anointing is not enough—the call of God is not enough; one must acquire a certain level of competency to qualify for the next level. Competence is having sufficient ability to do the job. It is a combination of spiritual gifts, personal values and practical skills that enable an individual to perform a given task to a successful standard. Competence is the key that unlocks opportunity; without it, opportunity will be lost. In other words, when the occasion for promotion is presented, those who have achieved certain abilities will enter in. Those who do not, will be left behind. Check back next week for further discussion on competence and how it is essential to promotion. Or, check out my newest book, Upward: Taking Your Life to the Next Level. Comments are closed.
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It was concerning King Saul that David said, “How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished.” His was a life that began with great promise and celebration, but ended in miserable failure and humiliation. His life is an example of how the mightiest of leaders fail.
Why do great men and women fall? How do leaders, quick to ascend with such promise of unparalleled success, find themselves awash in disastrous failure and disgrace? More importantly, can the path toward one’s downfall be discerned before it’s too late and be avoided? It is the premise of my newest book, How The Mighty Have Fallen that such a decline can be detected and reversed. The life and leadership career of King Saul, Israel's first king, provides us with a treasury of examples of "what not to do." The below blog post is the first in series of excerpts from the book to examine and avoid Saul's mistakes and find a successful path through leadership. READ AN EXCERPT |
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