Wishing you a meaningful Good Friday.

For some reason I had an urge to share this. If you don’t know the passage go read Daniel 3: 8-30. This is an encounter where the culture, society, and country leadership mandated that everyone bow down and worship a king and false gods. These 3 men had their names changed to mock God. Shadrach means “I am fearful of god” (Aku - moon god) and he was named Chananyah meaning “The Lord Shows Favor”. Meshach means “Who is like Aku” and was named Misha’el which means “Who is like God?” And finally Abednego means “Servant of Nego/Nabu” (Babylonian gods) and he was named Azaryah which means “The Lord is my Help.” The culture tried to take away their identifies and make them indoctrinated into Babylonian leadership and society. When threatened with death and torture they refused to give in and stood their ground. They stated that “God will protect them and deliver them from burning…Even if God decided it to protect them they still would not worship a false god. These guards died when they put them in the fire from the heat and the 3 men unbound and walking freely in the furnace. There was a 4th person in there with them until God delivered them from the fire unscathed. When they came out of the fire all the glory, honor, and credit went to God. In today’s society the cultures want men to stand down, look the other way, and not make waves. Give into the confusion of the current narrative and support ideologies that are from God. This weakens families, homes, generations, and communities. NO MORE! We stand on truth and the foundations that will restore families, homes, generations and communities. So God can be given all the glory, honor, and credit.

Before we delve into this topic, we need to revisit a story. For the sake of time, I will paraphrase, but it's important to understand that since the beginning of time, a fundamental formula for leadership has existed. This formula stems from responsibility. From responsibility comes authority, and when you possess both responsibility and authority, accountability always follows. This is an ancient leadership principle that modern society has largely forgotten. If you feel that your leadership is lacking, if you wonder, "Why am I not being taken seriously?" or if you feel like you are doing all the right things but not seeing the desired results, it's likely because you are not adhering to this principle. A Lesson from the Beginning Let's go back to the story of creation, which, whether you believe in the Bible or not, offers profound insight into this principle. After man was created, God gave him a purpose, a task. He was brought every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and it was man's responsibility to name them. God presented the creatures and asked, "What do you think they should be called?" He gave the responsibility of naming to Adam. Later, God created a partner for Adam. When Adam awoke to find her, he said, "This is at last bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man." Adam named his partner, fulfilling his responsibility to name the things God brought to him. Along with this responsibility, God also tasked man with keeping the garden—to work the fields, bring chaos into order, and tend to the ground. No one questioned what Adam was doing because he had the authority to do it. He was given a task, and with that responsibility came the inherent authority to carry it out. However, there was a boundary. God instructed Adam, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." This restriction, this boundary, was given directly to Adam. The responsibility to uphold it was his.