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Discipleship Focus: Competency
- Competency: Being able to accomplish what one is called to do.
I can’t help but think about David’s mourning of Saul with respect
to this idea of competency. In the
theological commentary from three years ago to which I linked above, I ask some
hard questions. I don’t like the answers
that I would give to those questions.
If a rival of mine died, would I mourn? If someone who has sought my destruction
died, would I be upset? If someone that
truly wanted the worst for me died, would I mourn?
This is why it is so shocking to hear David mourn Saul’s
death. Wouldn’t you think David would
celebrate? First of all, this opens up
the door for David to become king! But
perhaps more importantly it means David can stop running for his life. Yet David doesn’t celebrate. Rather, David mourns.
This is because David is a competent leader. David isn’t focused on himself. David is focused on the Lord’s Anointed, not
David’s reputation. David is competent because
he can focus on God’s ways even when the wisdom of the world should tell him
that he should really be celebrating.
With competence, we can choose the ways fo God instead of the ways of
the world.
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