Ezekiel 34 is one of the sharpest and clearest chapters in the Tanakh concerning the essence of leadership. It is a chapter that serves as Urim and Thummim for every public and spiritual leader, because it defines in a precise way what proper leadership is and what leadership that deviates from its calling is.
In Scripture, light is inseparable from truth. It reveals, exposes, and distinguishes without partiality. For this reason, light is not always comfortable.
I once heard an excellent illustration of our lives under pressure. There are moments in life when a person feels as if he is lying on the ground with the metal track of a heavy tank passing over him. Each link in the track presses him further and further into the earth.
