By Roydon Frost
This is one of our top devotions of 2020 published on the 01th of April 2020. Find the full article here
2 First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Saviour…
1 Timothy 2:1-2 (ESV)
Anyone who’s ever led anything for more than five minutes, will very quickly have learnt an important lesson: it is a whole lot easier to criticise than it is to actually do something. Franklin D Roosevelt put it like this:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
As South Africans we are world-class critics, and there is no-one we love to criticise more than our public officials – often with just cause, but seldom with the humility that comes from recognising our own limitations as leaders in whatever it is we lead…Keep Reading