what's right may be wrong

today i was hanging out with two of my bestest best gal pals... i really love them alot alot... anyway... we were talking about the leadership and everything. one of them was going thru some problems with her good frenz being unable to show her the respect she deserved as a youth leader. i've been in both positions before. as an angry youth who felt like she was being oppressed by her leaders and now i'm a youth leader myself tho i haven't had any form of hate fired at me (thank you Lord).

leaders aren't always right. tt's the first thing i wanna say. there are times we make mistakes. but leaders are also chosen by the Lord to do things and to serve. when i was a youth, there were some leaders i didn't like and i thought that they shouldn't even be serving but i was wrong. not because they were good leaders but because i was thinking that i was better than God. that my decisions were better than His. n i was being snobbish. there was once when i nearly shouted at a leader because he was unreasonable. it's not easy being a youth sometimes. never was. but just know that when ur respecting the leader God has placed b4 u, you're respecting the leaders that you love and God. i chose not to shout at that leader because there were others that i loved alot. even when we're right, when we don't respect our leaders we become wrong. like what tchr elizabeth said, "i'd rather be wrong yet respecting my leader, then be right and cause a rebellion." especially when you want so much a position that they hold, respecting your leader is much more worth it, trust me i know.

there have been times when i've felt like speaking my mind n telling a leader what he's doing wrong but somehow my spirit held me back and i realised why. it's because God doesn't need me to correct the leader. God can do it Himself and much better than us. correcting your leader is again like thinking you're greater than God, that you know what to do better than Him. Let our leaders be taught by the Lord Himself.

I sure wanna be taught by the Lord Himself rather than be corrected by a youth myself. now from a viewpoint of a leader, i've not been one that long but i've alrdy known what i've wanted to do in this ministry if i stayed back and that was to love the youths. it's true that we're not always right. we're humans too. if not we might as well not be serving. if we were perfect, we'd have nothing to share with you, nothing for you to learn from and we'd be unable to empathise with anything you were going thru.

i don't have much to say from a leader's viewpoint. because they are rather interlinked. my last statement for the nite : Honour your leaders (realise this includes parents), and God will surely honour you much more. i've seen it in my life. He surely will.
Be blessed!