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When our "dependence" on God goes wrong. Was in a discussion and someone said something to the effect that the capacity of a person who intends to be in leadership doesn't really matter because God qualifies those he chooses. As much as it sounded right in a religious sense,
It kind of shifted responsibility on God in a way not clearly stipulated in scripture. What we need to understand is that God has always set out a criteria for any position of leadership and given us the power to choose based on the standard he asks us to look out for in a person
He has never given the impression "I will qualify the person when he gets into leadership." When he chooses a person from the womb, he "qualifies" the individual so that those qualities to shine so bright that men recognise that something is going on here and select the person.
He always gives a criteria. To Moses choose able men, Paul told Timothy a man who aspires into a position of leadership must have certain qualities. Peter said to the Church at Jerusalem, choose men filled with the Holyghost and wisdom. God tells us how to know whom he's chosen.
We cannot shift that responsibility to God and hope and pray that things will work our right when we have ignored the instructions he has given concerning leadership. We pray so as to understand what the scriptures(our life's manual) says so that our actions will be informed.
It is acting on God's wisdom as stipulated in the scripture that turns things around.
