When Power Corrupts

I heard some good conversation recently on people in positions of power and the opportunity for corruption... well, not so much opportunity as it was, it's down right existence.

It doesn't really matter what environment it grows in; its' affects are an overwhelming hindrance to life, ultimately to those in the midst of it, but sooner or later it extends to those who will receive it's unintended consequences. That creates huge problems.

Trust becomes an issue.
Correction becomes complicated.
Yet as awareness spreads,
Outrage grows deep and wide.

And depending on the circumstances surrounding it and in particular, the people and power that may reside at corruption's core, hopelessness of any positive change may be inevitable.

Such an existence is not good for a country, nor is it good for a local community. It destroys a single business with as much a devastating end as it does a single church.

So, on this #deaconThursday, pray for the leadership of today's church. May the hold their positions of power and influence with wisdom and humility. Pray they would lead their church with the integrity that we would expect them to lead their home. Pray their ability to walk and live according to God's Word in public would indeed stem from time and fellowship with Him at home. And pray that God would do the miraculous, in churches, communities and countries that are in the midst of devastating corruption practices. May there be a shift of direction and a day of reckoning would come quickly; that they would witness a turn-around in their every day life as well as for eternity.

For God has called us to a higher standard,
For His glory and by His strength.
Not overcome by the darkness,
But a light that scatters the darkness.

- PNC