Seven Sentence Sermon: Thumbless Leaders

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Do you ever stop to appreciate how valuable our thumbs are?

Experts say the thumb accounts for 40 to 50 percent of all hand usage.

Occasionally, surgeons can replace a thumb with a big toe, allowing an individual to recover a portion of hand usage.

“Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. And Adoni-Bezek said, ‘Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me’ (Judges 1:6-7 NKJ).”

What is most interesting is how Judah returned the favor that Adoni-Bezek had impressed on the leaders he would capture.

So the real question is how do we treat those around us whom we compete with, whether professionally or personally?

Who knows, maybe some of the “challenges” we are dealing with today have spawned from how we’ve treated others.
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