Isaiah 31-35: Would you be willing to run for public office? If you are like me you may have shouted NO!!! It isn’t that anything is wrong with serving or that we would mind the work. It is just that there have been so many people who have served that have not walked in right paths that everyone looks at public officials looking for the imperfections and their weaknesses. The same could be true of ministers, teachers, administrators and anyone in leadership. Isaiah’s day was no different. Here is some of his advice.
32:8 “But he who is noble plans noble things,
and on noble things he stands.”
I thought about the word noble and other words that came to my mind were respect, or uprightness. If some who are noble and upright don’t stand up we will have leadership that few if anyone respects in our churches, communities, our schools, and yes even in our nation’s highest offices. We must teach our children early these lessons because when they are older it is too late. They can already have some heavy baggage that prevents them from leading. As we rock the cradles of our little ones may we pray they become noble men and women who stand for noble things and practice noble things. As we coach and teach these same little ones may we remember we are teaching them noble character traits. Leaders of noble character are grown one choice and one decision at a time.