Pondering Leadership....

After posting a question on Facebook today, I've been pondering it, deeper and deeper. So, I thought I'd write here, where there's more room to think in words. My question was basically, how do people see that the family is run, socialist, communist, democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, etc. I wrote that I personally believed that the main governing premise, in my mind and thereby, family, is loving God, with my all heart, and my neighbour, as myself. The top "laws" of scripture.
It's obvious to me, living in an atmophere of political criticism, that it's easier to point the finger "out", than "in" at our ownselves. I believe, if we don't face up to our own messes, we have nothing to say into anything at all. We are a nation, a world, ever so predominated by blind hypocrits. All of us, have fallen into this category at times. Blindness, like this, is a huge hindrance to love.
For me, the chasm, between the Kingdom of God, and all other governments, is ever widening in dynamics. Not that they have ever cohabited. But, there have been times in history, where government and politics, borrowed much from scripture.
But, I don't want to talk about history, or politics really. I want everyone, including myself, to take a really good look at themselves. How do you lead? How do you affect those people around you? Do you even know?
We have all probably experienced throughout our lives, many forms of leadership, from the amazingly good, to the awful in the extreme. The saddest thing would be to be an awful leader, "hitleresque", and be utterly blind to yourself and the affect you have on others. I'm pretty sure world dictators, tyrants, controlling in the extreme, don't care, and probably don't see themselves in anything but their own light, which isn't light at all.
There have been such abuses of leadership in the church. Religious abuse, is insidiously, devastating.
For me, the saddest thing is, that this misrepresentation of God, is so far off the mark of who He really is. You know, He isn't very defensive about Himself. He's secure in Himself and His leadership methods are the most unorthodox, original, creative and totally good. It isn't God who abuses power, even though He is omnipotent. It is people, even in His name, but not authorized by Him at all. The salt of the earth, are the people, who resemble Him the most. They are salty! Sometimes annoyingly so!
There is another player in this whole game of control and this is the one that is not perceived in the world's political systems, but it is manipulated by this player. This is the enemy of our race and of God. This is a real battle.
What can someone, who doesn't even agree there is a devil do, in a battle, where he is so blinded by the dark? It is the ones who are in the light, called and anointed, to love these blind, and to "proclaim recovery of sight to those bound by the dark". I can, and do, pray for people, all over the globe, not just limited to this present tense either, and I can ask for God to do for them, what they don't even believe needs to be done. If I have a friendship with God, and He with me, then, as time goes by, His life, and ways, rub off on me. I am more and more able to ask for those very things that He would most like to be asked for. My faith in Him, made more sure, year after year. This is His grace to me. This is the way He rules. He dominates with grace, and rules in mercy and His ideas are just and His heart is good. He has already done for us, all we need, to be completely free. He died for us, in spite of the fact that no one asked Him to. I wonder how many have refused His life's blood?
As to not believing there is a God, or if Jesus is God, and needing proof, or wondering why you should believe something that cannot be seen. I'm going to ask a couple of questions, because I believe our very self, our own body, proves we were made to walk in faith, easily. First question is: Can you see smells? How do you know it's there if you can't see it? But, you can "see" it, but it is perceived through your sense of smell. You can detect so many fragrances and smells and scents and I am saying, this is a bit of a picture of walking in faith. Second question; Can you see cold or warm or hot? You can sense it, easily. But, not with your eyesight, with your sense of touch. This too a picture of faith. How about, can you see sound? Can you see air? Let's take it a bit farther, what about those times, when you can "cut the atmophere with a knife"? Or someone gave you "the creeps". All these things we do, some easily explained in physiology, some not so easy to explain.
You can't see me, or touch me right now, but here I am, writing to you, because I love "connection". Why?
If there is a God, why wouldn't He love connection too? Why would He have to live by your rules? In fact, since we didn't make Him, the only way to know Him, is if He reveals Himself. I find Him very easy to "see".
Have you ever known anyone, and you'll walk into their home, or eat a meal they prepared, or receive a gift from them, or look at something they made and felt like saying, "this looks just like them!" If we can do that with people, and we do, all the time. We can surely do it with God. We can know so much about Him, that scripture becomes a confirmation of truth, revealed clearly, all around.
God has such particular affection for us. I believe we were born with an inborn sense of faith, like a sixth sense. I also think we were born, deeply needing the affection of God, to have that worth, validated. We were, and are, worth saving, to Him. This means we are worth saving, period. He is particularly stubborn, when it comes to giving up on us, and He is utterly clever in wisdom, knowing us intimately, as He is the ultimate, "fisher of men". The truth is, we are fish, that desperately want to, and need to be caught, by Him:)