Title:- Maker's Mark
1 Kings 12:19 So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Margaret Hilda Roberts, an Oxford graduate, became the first woman to be president of one of the University’s political organizations. After marrying Dennis and giving birth to twins, she restarted her political career and ended up being elected for three terms as the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland and today in 1974, she was sworn in after her first election victory.
Rightly or wrongly, Hilda began dismantling socialism in Britain. Her unwavering resolution to stand by her political decisions and policies in face of war, trade union conflict and terrorist bombing, led her to be dubbed the “Iron Lady”. However, the hurt, sense of loss, and grievance that many people in the country felt during her terms of office by the implementation of her policies, which meant they lost their health care, money in their pockets, their jobs and communities, have led her memory to be regarded with not a little infamy in her homeland. “Thatcherism,” that form of politics attributed to her style and philosophy, is now only repeated with spitting disdain. Never the less, because of the vast electoral majority Mrs Thatcher received in her parliaments, she was allowed very wide parameters of operation and implementation. Subsequently then, no matter what you think of her, Britain was never the same after Hilda held the high ground.
Here is a lesson friends: A majority does not make you right; a majority does not make you righteous; a majority does not make you wise; a majority does not make you gracious; a majority does not mean peace, neither is it necessarily harmonious. Remember folks that democracy means majority rule and not necessarily righteous and therefore merciful rule! Kings, Queens, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Bishops, Elders, Trustees, CEO's, Committees, Husbands, Parents, Big brothers, Senior Pastors, leaders all and of every kind, always need to remember mercy.
Mercy, that kindly ministry of love, that real spiritual brew, that true 'Maker's Mark' if you will, that revival drink that makes cold hearts warm, hard ground soft and hate to dissipate, that most magnificent mercy, should be the Master’s mark on the forehead of every Christian leader.
True ministers of God then, either church or secular, are direct ministers of the Almighty Father and need to remember that He is called, the “Father of Mercies”. Make sure your hands, eyes, heart and mouth all bear the 'Maker’s Mark' today.
Listen: - Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy. Matthew 5:7
Pray: -Lord, temper my personal power with both marvellous and melting mercy, in Jesus name I pray, amen!
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