"We share and share alike—those who go to battle and those who guard the equipment [supplies]."
A reality life check in fact shows that this often does not happen . Have you ever noticed that, when someone works real hard to build a product , group, a class, or an organization from scratch, and when it is up and running successfully, how someone else wants to take it over and run it—and sometimes ends up killing it? The brass ring is easy to tarnish without some spit and polish.
I've seen it happen in all groups , churches ,organizations and businesses more than once. I've had it happen to various support groups that I started . .When I returned after a extended trip, it had been taken over by one of the members . . . and soon died.
"An admirer once asked Leonard Bernstein, celebrated orchestra conductor, what was the hardest instrument to play. He replied without hesitation: 'Second fiddle. I can always get plenty of first violinists, but to find one who plays second violin with as much enthusiasm, now that's a problem. And yet if no one plays second, we have no harmony.'"2
In King David's day some of those who went to battle wanted to keep for themselves all the spoils of that which was conquered. They didn't want to share the glory or the spoils with those who stayed behind the front lines and took care of the "stuff" (supplies and equipment). Short sighted greed often kills most deals as the logistic and popular support shrinks the in field army.
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