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Coloring Souls

How sweet and awesome is power? What does it mean to have power and how limited is it to those that have it? We are all longing for it because it positions us appropriately to favour.

A lot of events would be on our palms hence whatever we desire, we can solicit since authority is within out jurisdiction. Power is the possession of controlling authority or influence and it is only limited to a certain span of time. You cannot be powerful forever, at one point we ought to lose it, whether we want or not. The universe distributes power according to whom grace has allocated and grace gives the person in power the confidence to lead whatever the chosen pack provides. Power is a privilege and we all deserve to earn it equally but unfortunately we cannot have it all at the same time.

There has to be leaders and followers and power distinguishes the latter two. It is imperative to comprehend that power is seasonal thus one gets to appreciate and mind how it is distributed within the set- up. Some leaders share it fairly whilst others do not. The leaders distribute power evenly while bosses abuse it. A leader is first inducted by life events to learn to apply the power they are given whereas bosses land in power without any pre- conditioning to the privilege. It just happens haphazardly. They are more mean than the leaders, who appear meek at all seasons. One day, Samuel was instructed to go and anoint the new king of Israel; David. The existing king; Saul, heard that the Lord has ordained the new king and the news provoked him negatively. He knew that his reign on the throne was over and none of his off- springs would inherit the kingdom.

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