I would like to share the following quote with you by Henry Nouwen.

..." What makes the temptation of power so seemingly irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life..."

The long painful history of the church is the history of people ever and again tempted to choose power over love, control over the cross, being a leader over being led.

Those who resisted this temptation to the end and thereby give us hope are the true saints. 

THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S
POCKET MANUAL OF DEVOTIONS.

COMPILED BY REV. C. T. QUINTARD,Chaplain 1st Tenn. Regiment.

THE DUTIES OF A CHRISTIAN

That man leads a sincere Christian life,
      
1st. Who endeavors to serve and obey God to the best of his understanding and power.
      
2dly. Who strives to please his neighbor to edification.
       
3dly. Who endeavors to do his duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased God to call him.
     
Whoever would continue in the practice of these things unto his life's end, it is necessary that he should call himself often to an account whether he does so or not; constantly pray for grace to know, and to do his duty; and preserve himself in such a teachable temper as to be always ready to receive the truth when it is fairly proposed to him.