David was \u2018on a roll\u2019. He kept winning battle after battle. He had a golden touch. But success can go to your head, and David wasn\u2019t exempt. He started wondering, \u2018Just how strong are we?\u2019 At that point, he conducted a census and discovered he had \u2018one million one hundred thousand [fighting] men.\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Chronicles\u00a021:5\u00a0NIV) That could tempt any of us to think, \u2018With an army this size, and a track record of success, who needs to pray for God\u2019s help or ask Him for a plan?\u2019 That was the point at which God stepped in and judged David, and seventy thousand Israelites died needlessly (see 1\u00a0Chronicles\u00a021:14). <\/p>\n
So here is another aspect of leadership you need to be aware of: your mistakes have the potential to hurt others.<\/i> You\u2019re not just accountable to those who are over you; you\u2019re responsible for those under you. After all, if your good decisions have the ability to bless and guide people, your bad decisions have the potential to harm them. \u2018David said to God, \u201cWas it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I, the shepherd, have sinned and done wrong\u2026 let Your hand fall on me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on Your people.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (1\u00a0Chronicles\u00a021:17\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
God graciously answered David\u2019s prayer, and judgment was lifted from Israel. So, you need God\u2019s guidance for your own sake, the sake of the people around you, and to give you the grace to accept responsibility when you fail. Don\u2019t try to hide your failures, blame others, or run from God. Acknowledge them, grow through them, and go on to become wiser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David was \u2018on a roll\u2019. He kept winning battle after battle. He had a golden touch. But success can go to your head, and David wasn\u2019t exempt. He started wondering, \u2018Just how strong are we?\u2019 At that point, he conducted a census and discovered he had \u2018one million one hundred thousand [fighting] men.\u2019 (1\u00a0Chronicles\u00a021:5\u00a0NIV) That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}