Leadership is Foresight, Period

This virus has exposed some of the people we call leaders, and especially those we have made leaders, so badly.

As I have been looking at some measures being taken, and especially the way they are being implemented, I feel so sad because the populace see pitfalls long before the said leadership can get the littlest grasp on the same.

Until the led wonder who should actually be leading, though they will not say so.

I sometimes think the leadership is hitting at the wrong target again and again.

But again I think they are finding great frustration because of who or what they think or believe is the source of their misery.

Some measures, though genuine, may be a way of hitting back or venting at imaginary enemies limiting their pleasures, probably debaucheries.

I was saddened to now that private clubs were still operational so long after everywhere else was closed. Yet a club is a bar and restaurant, among many other social functions, rolled into one.

Remember they closed bars in response to an outcry? Yet they had closed churches without blinking. And a church is safer than that private club as its membership is sober and therefore manageable. You wonder why they limit the passenger capacity of a vehicle yet summarily close a church.

I think they are mad at God for limiting their freedom. They then hit at the poor who apart from having no options should they be attacked by the virus still appear protected. They therefore limit their freedoms so that they can join them in their sorrow.

How does a sane man close a city to movement with a two hour notice? That is unless there is one person you are blocking from entering. Then you must punish millions for your agenda to be fulfilled. And you still do not feel guilty when you hear of whole families spending nights in the cold because their journey has been curtailed just at a clique’s whim.

I suspect that even the private clubs were closed because they had started being avenues of infection.

And this virus will still defy your logic until you start being responsible leaders.

As things stand, it is possible you are ‘praying’ that the lower class get infected as then it would take the pressure off your class.

But the poor have God even though you closed their places of worship. And they pray.

Do not therefore become surprised when God protects them.

How do you close a restaurant and leave a market that has an immensely denser population open? How do you close a church and leave a bar and private club open?

Yet they have not closed the golf clubs, only sending home the poor caddies. They also continue enjoying their fun as they deny others their livelihood. This is because without caddies there will be little golfing and more clubbing. The down (or up depending on where you stand) side is that they will spread infections among themselves.

Isn’t it worrying that the president announces a great ‘offering’ to entertainers when the lower classes are starving since they either can’t get employment or customers as their customers are the ones who have become jobless.

But it is understandable knowing the selfish nature of our crop of leaders, and their ignorance. They have no idea what hunger is. To them it is severe deprivation lacking entertainment or other fun activities. Paying an entertainer is therefore more productive than providing food for the starving.

They could therefore comfortably give a starving family a TV instead of food and think they have done a very good deed.

And do not be surprised if you see them create a slot in this confusion to fix their concubine, relative, business associate to an eating position even as people are starving.

And see the demeaning way they are publishing their benevolence when they ‘give’ food to the disadvantaged. Imagine creating stampedes that cause death just to show how generous they are! Yet they still want us to clap for them when they are breaking their distancing rules to publish their ‘generosity’. Yet they have a fund that should be handling food distribution.

Yet many other people who are not called leaders have been giving food to the same people without creating any ripples as they do not demean those they are giving or expose them to situations that can spread not just the virus.

I will not defy. Nor will I incite anybody to do the same.

I am just saying that good leadership is never reactionary. Any decision taken and order given must have been so well thought of as to remove any doubts that you are concerned and in charge of and for those you lead. Then compliance will seamlessly connect two normals as opposed to introducing confusion as we are seeing. Unless your purpose is punishing those you lead.

Even as I say this, I am also looking at spiritual leaders since many are not much different from political leaders. As Jesus said, they load those they lead with immense loads yet will not lift a finger to help them.

The virus is also exposing them badly. The fact that buildings are closed does not mean your calling (if God called you) has become unnecessary. In fact, it makes your ministry even more vital to the church of Christ. The fact that you have no offerings does not mean you cannot minister. In fact that is the one time you should make yourself most useful.

Lack of consideration to those we lead will ultimately open us to judgment. And I am saying that as a minister. And I am sure we are about to see that judgment on such leadership, whether secular or spiritual.

Only the repentance of the leaders will soften the impact of that judgment.