God Molds The Man!

True spiritual leaders are made in God’s divine mold. When Jeremiah was told to go to the potter’s house, it was for more than just a casual visit. God wanted him to see that He was molding Israel and she was not responding to His hands. I believe that there is a great parallel in molded clay and the training process that God puts men through before they may take “center stage”.

Consider, if you will, how so few people are truly leading. Why is that? It is due, in part, to the mentality that leaders are produced by human methods, and by the issuing of diplomas. Sure God may use colleges, and universities to help educate the leader, but spiritual leadership is not derived from a collection of facts and a great ability to disseminate truths to people. One needs good training and teaching from those in the arena of leadership. However, we should not assume just because someone has sat under the tutelage of another spiritual leader that they have somehow been knighted as a spiritual leader.

God puts a man through a process that starts years previous to their debut in the public role as spiritual leader. Somewhere in the background a soul has desired to put first “the kingdom of God and His righteousness”. As this soul learns to let Christ be Lord of their lives, as they continue day by day being “conformed to the image of His Son”, and as they learn from their mistakes maturing into a responsible God-fearing individual, then God brings forth a vessel sanctified and meet for His own use.

When a group of people accept leadership derived outside the aforementioned program, then they have settled for “Sauline” and not “Davidic” leadership. God uses people who make themselves available in the smaller duties. As they progress by proving their integrity, faithfulness, and their God-given abilities, God may promote them into more responsible positions. The holding of different positions, and carrying out of specific duties, in and of themselves, do not make the man, but serve to shape him. Again, God matures his man through these performances. The aspiring leader must grow their beard of maturity. As a potter molds the clay, God creates the spiritual leaders little by little on the wheel of life.