From Dr. Matthew Stevenson

I feel a strong prompting to encourage Visionaries and Senior Leaders with the following principle. If you are a leader of leaders or one who has responsibility with raising people up, Don't ignore this. It could be a matter of life and death!

The pig, is historically seen as the most unclean and non discriminate beast of the entire realm of creation. Similar to rats, the pig has no regard for its consumption. It sees equal value in everything, as long as it pleases its own appetite. It gives no regard to how it appears, what it eats, the quality of its survival or anything else, and can only domestically and peaceably co-exist and partner, with its own kind. Slop, filth and large amounts of it, are what causes its happiness to peak. Other peoples food, materials and used matter is what satisfies its search and seek. Because of the swine nature, anything that is worth real value should never be given to them. The costly, the rare, the uncommon should never be invested in them or their living space, simply because the thing that you give them, even if you've spent your entire life or a large sum of money to pay for it, will find its fate, it the exact pile of slop, as the other things, the pigs have been accustomed to valuing, or not so much. All this to say, it makes you really measure your investments, disciples, proteges, and efforts to people really intently when you hear the words of our Lord, the master "Leader-Breeder" as He echoes to His initial students saying in Matthew 7:6

""Don't waste what is holy on people who are unholy. Don't throw your pearls to pigs! They will trample the pearls, then turn and attack you."

If you have felt like you have been in the attack of the killer pigs, perhaps you should sow, teach, preach, counsel, invest, and make time for those that you know have a VALUE for your pearls. You have paid a heavy price for what rests on you, don't allow some irreverent, to make demands on you or your time for impartation and then attack you because they couldn't discern the thousands of pearls, you gave them the chance to reflect on and value. Let someone else raise up and tame pigs. LOVE THEM, but let them be somebody else s work. YOU....need to focus on your imperfect, immature, dysfunctional, yet COMMITTED disciples....THESE ARE THEY...that will turn the world upside down! The moral of the story is this...depending on your calling...Your mantle, will work in hostile environments and may even thrive when intense opposition rises against you, however your most POTENT release, will be to those who value what rests on your life and its place in their life. Redirect your energy, and delegate the rest!