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Day 136

July 08, 2025 • Aneel Aranha • Season 3 • Episode 136

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Explore how leadership choices divide or unite through Rehoboam's harsh rule and Paul's wisdom to Titus, learning to lead with humility and serve others faithfully.

Day 136 – Leadership That Builds or Breaks

1 Kings 12
2 Chronicles 10–11
Titus 1

Every leader inherits a moment that reveals who they really are. For Rehoboam, that moment came the day he took the throne. The people asked him to lighten the heavy load his father had placed on them. The older, wiser advisers told him to listen and to serve. But the young men around him told him what he wanted to hear, and he chose them. He promised to make the burden even heavier, and the kingdom split right down the middle. Up north, Jeroboam had a chance to lead well, and instead he led the people into idol worship. Then Paul writes to Titus and shows us a better way. He says a leader should be blameless, self-controlled, and faithful to what is true. Read side by side, these chapters show that leadership built on pride tears people apart, while leadership built on humility and integrity holds them together.

One thread ties all of this together. Leadership reveals the heart. Pride scatters people, but humility and integrity gather them in and keep them safe.

So how do we live this out today? Three simple steps come straight from the reading.

First, think of a decision you're facing right now, and bring it to someone wiser or older than you. Ask for their counsel, and really weigh it before you decide.

Second, find one place where you lead. It might be your home, your job, or your church. Pick one way to serve there today instead of trying to control it.

Third, picture the traits Paul lists for a godly leader. Blameless. Self-controlled. Faithful. Ask God which one you most need Him to grow in you, and pray over it.

Before the day gets busy, hold onto this. The way you lead shows what you treasure. So choose to build people up, not break them down. Lead like someone who's been trusted with something precious, because you have.

Thank you for joining me today. May the Lord give you a listening ear, a servant's heart, and the courage to lead with integrity wherever He's placed you. Until tomorrow, remain faithful in the small things and trust God with the rest.