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WEEKLY DEVOTIONAL: PATH TO FAILURE

11 February, 2017

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother. But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself. Deuteronomy 17:15-17

Perhaps one of the greatest mysteries about failure is seeing a man who has all it takes but his unable to succeed. What is it about failure humans are yet to learn? If Wisdom alone does not guarantee success and failure is not the absence of wisdom? What is responsible for failure when at some point in our lives we thought our plans were Failure-Proof? Solomon, a king endowed with wisdom and great riches, in his life time he spoke many wise words and gave counsel to kings. Yet, at his exit he left the nation with a lingering economic crises and a rebellion that divided the nation into two.

An Israelite must not intermarry with the heathen nations especially the king. He shall not own horses and chariots (liken to modern day automobiles) for self-aggrandisement, on no account shall any Israelite to the nation of Egypt. The king must have a recorded copy of these instructions, and he shall read it in the morning and at night every day of his reign. But in the beginning of Solomon’s reign he made an exemption for himself. Today, we have such a generation that has somehow believed that intellectualism allow us break golden principles of life without expecting any consequences. We exempt ourselves from following rules and restrictions with the hope our ingenuity will make up for our acts.

We might trail the line of reason and ask, Why God allowed Solomon to continue in his mistakes without any criticism? Nobody stood up to Solomon and demanded an answer for his actions. No not a single prophet. Perhaps the nation of Israel was awestruck to believe that a king who spoke a thousand proverbs could never go wrong. God had offered to Solomon what was needed to avoid the pitfalls he stumbled at, the first being the Law and the second was the endowment of wisdom. God did not speak about his flaws because Solomon had wisely rejected the perfect Law of God. When Solomon rejected the law of God, he rejected the word of God. The Law was given to him to mould his wisdom but Solomon reversed the process.

The same things applies to us today, if we trust in intellectualism and abandon the instructions of God clearly written to admonish us, failure is inevitable. There is also no such thing as a leader or leadership that is never in need of constructive criticism. Let us gladly embrace opposing voices because they create moments that halts us in our acts so we can reflect again on them.

One Week Reading Plan

TODAY                 Proverbs 11:14
SUNDAY               1 Corinthians 10:11-12
MONDAY             Proverbs 1:1-5
TUESDAY            Hebrews 12:5-9
WEDNESDAY     Proverbs 15:31-33
THURSDAY         Colossians 3:16
FRIDAY                Luke 16:31
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