"....served the LORD all the days of Joshua..." Joshua 24:31
Great leaders make great examples and are great reminders of how to live for God and serve Him wholeheartedly. They inspire followers to walk a righteous, holy and consecrated life with the Lord. Sadly being human can also mean we tend to rely on such examples to keep us on the straight and narrow path, rather than to lean heavily on the Spirit of God to deal with us directly. It was so, that shortly after the death of Joshua, the next generation who had not witnessed and experienced the greatness of God through their leader, began to do evil and introduce the ways of the heathen, in place of the ways and principles of God. This is always a downward path of loss and self-destruction, and Israel is a testimony to that fact. It's not wrong to have great leaders - they are sent to us from God, to direct us, teach us and instruct us. What is paramount is that we recognise and make the truths and great concepts we learn from them our very own, believe them in our deepest heart and insist on living those principles personally and consistently because they are of God. Leaders will come and go, but God's Word endures eternally!
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