Heralds Digest

  “ Therefore they inquired of the Lord further, “Has the man come here yet?” And the Lord answered, “There he is, hidden among the equipment.” So they ran and brought him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.”   ­I Samuel 10:22-23 NKJV The portion from the Lord is always better than the people portion because it is double: double promotion (human intelligence plus divine inspiration), double prosperity (human enrichment plus divine prosperity), and double power (human strength plus divine empowerment). When Saul was little and uninfluenced by the people, the Lord sought him out and promoted him to relevance and the general acceptance of the people. Whenever we have to struggle for the people’s acceptance and get engaged in political maneuvering, we will have to settle for just the people’s portion with its consistent and annoying servitude or compromise. Whereas, it is always better to hide our potenti...

  “ And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them .” I Samuel 8:7 NKJV When Sir Winston Churchill said ‘ Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time’, theocracy wasn’t spared the rot. The struggle has always been the thorough management of the decadence in human governance. In any of the different forms of government, it is possible for God to influence governance or the mechanism for deciding state policies and the means by which those policies are enforced. Even today, man is quick to engage in the blame game of shifting faults around for the mess in his home, workplaces, and institutions. Whereas, the Lord is saying “ My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways ” (Proverbs 23:26). Whenever any believer delights himself in the Lord, especially amidst the negl...