Counsel together, Work together, Meet God together

By David Berg

A good executive is not a boss!––He is a servant! Jesus wasn't just trying to teach His disciples humility when He said, "He who is greatest among you must be servant of all!" A good executive simply is not a dictator! He must call his people in and talk to them and find out what they think and go a great deal by what they say. If he sees their ideas are good, all he has to do is say, "OK!"

A good executive is really a servant! He listens to his employees! When the top people don't even communicate with their co-workers, then of course they don't understand the problems of those under them.

So when it comes to things that are practical, the leaders ought to listen to their helpers! When it comes to the inspirational, you're supposed to be good, or you shouldn't be the leader! But when it comes to the practical, they probably know more about it than you do! (Read Acts 6:1-4.) Once you have made the decision, okayed your workers' suggestions, accepted them, approved what they have to do or want to do, you should then agree together to do it.

Any officer, any general who doesn't listen to his officers and doesn't pay any attention to his men, is going to be in trouble! Every good king is surrounded by many counselors who tell him what to do! Did you know that even God works that way?––He calls in His chief counselors and spirits and Angels and asks them, "What do you think we should do about this?" He listens to their different plans and suggestions and then He has the Godly wisdom to know who is right and to make the choice! If you don't believe it, read Genesis 1:26; 1 Kings 22:19-22; Job 1:6-12 etc.!

Any smart executive is going to pump people power!––He is neither going to try to be the pump, nor the water, nor the bucket! He's merely going to be the guiding hand that takes hold of the handle and grabs the bull by the tail and pumps!––I'll tell you, you'll get action then! Let the people's well, the repository of God's rain, provide the water! Let the pump, his counselors, bring it to him and then let his spouts guide it into his buckets and not try to run everything himself!

God not only listens to his Heavenly counselors, Spirits and Angels, but don't forget, He even listens to us and does what we ask Him to do! But a tyrannical spirit makes a leader like the Devil, the first would-be dictator, who didn't want to listen to either God or the other angelic forces!

He declares his independence from all righteous rule and people and goes about doing his dirty work amongst the whole universe as a dandy bad example of what not to be and what not to do! So we have hell on Earth and even some hell in the heavenlies at present in the Spirit World, until God throws him out completely and all his devils, in the coming Tribulation and Wrath of God after the Rapture.

So we all need to work together, we need to listen to each other, counsel together, agree together, decide together and then work it out together. If we're going to be an effective body, every member must work together with all the other members––not just one, not just a few, not even the majority, but with all working together as a body, which Christ described as His Body, the Church and with Himself as the Head.

God bless you and keep you together––even when you're apart! Never get so far apart you can't stay together in spirit. The only way we're going to win this war is to fight it together and not against each other, but together with each other against the Enemy!

Let's win it together so we can shout the victory together and greet God together in the end!

Then and only then will you be a wise leader and a good executive!


The Family International