In contrast to trust, dependence, reliance and subjugation to human leadership that always dies, even our own leadership with its termination date in the future, God models leadership that lasts.

Do you want to leave a legacy? Check out the priorities of God from Psalm 146. To the extent that our leadership, and any sphere of influence, reflect and honor these, something lasts when we are dead.

These are the things God does:

• God made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them. (We cannot add to that, but we can respect it and respect His creation>
• God keeps faith forever. (We can be leaders of integrity.)
• God executes justice for the oppressed. (He is always for the "underdog.")
• The LORD sets the prisoners free (America leads the world in mass incarceration.).
• The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.
• The LORD lifts up those who are bowed down.
• The LORD loves the righteous.
• The LORD watches over the sojourners.
• God upholds the widow and the fatherless.
• God brings the way of the wicked to ruin.

Here is a model for people/leaders who want something to survive after their plans perish with them.