#soap # Joshua 19 ## Title: Honor Your Leaders ## Scripture: (Joshua 19:49) “When they finished dividing the land into its regions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun some land.” (NET) ## Observation: Joshua had served the people of Israel for a long time. Many people have a wrong idea of leadership. They see someone “at the top” making decisions and think they have it made. (Many people at the top act this way.) The reality is leadership is serving. The leader serves those they lead by making those decisions and doing the ‘hard things.’ Everyone wants to be a leader until it gets hard. Then they are happy to pass the problems away. Because of this, we should not seek to be a leader nor should we pile on more than necessary. We should honor our leaders. We know God is Sovereign and will use those leaders to accomplish His will. ## Application: Honor a leader in your life today. ## Prayer: Thank You, Jesus, for helping us be grateful for those in leadership in our lives.