Honor

Here’s the scene in 1 Samuel 24:  King Saul is trying to kill David.  David catches him ‘relieving himself’ in a cave.  David sneaks up behind him and cuts off the corner of Saul’s robe.  (Must have been a long one!)  David basically does this so that he can show Saul that he could have killed him if he wanted to.  God convicts David in a huge way and he realizes that he has dishonored the King, even though Saul has tried to kill him.

This causes me to wonder about how we treat those in authority over us.  Do we chop off parts of their robe just to show them we could undermine their leadership if we want to?  Do we do things just to show them that ‘we don’t need them’ or ‘just to show them who is boss’?

I never want that to be true of my life.  I am blessed to have a Pastor that gives me the ability to lead.  He gives me a lot of freedom (no pun intended).  I want to be sure that I’m not guilty of undermining his leadership.  I want to complement him, not compete with him.  The bottom line is that God has called him to be the Pastor.  God has called me to be the Executive Pastor.  I’m perfectly ok with that.  In fact, I feel like it was what I was born to do.  I pray that God would help me not to do anything that would chop off a corner of Pastor J.R.’s robe… especially while he is going to the bathroom:)