Becoming The Effective Leader God Desires (2)
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- Becoming The Effective Leader God Desires (2)
Let's take this as a sequel for our previous study on leadership.
With the insight that a leader other than being a visioneer, a thinker, a dreamer, and a doer must also of great importance be a selfless man.
For instance, let's study David a bit: At a point when doom spelled upon Israel; pain, death, fear, had so much as crippled the fetus still being formed in the womb, David showed one other quality of a leader that can never be bypassed.
Though this evil effect was as a result of David's wrong actions of calling on a census of the people, he took responsibility for his actions.....and so thus, the second great attribute is Responsibility.
A leader must always see himself responsible both for things that are directly under his watch, and even those that aren't. He must be willing to say 'I'm responsible' even when it was his subject who hit the rudder in the wrong direction; not because he was humanly responsible, but because as the general, the faults of his subject are also his, so also as their glories are also his.
Back to David; when the plague had so much as cut across one-third of the once well pastured land of Israel, I presume David never stopped seeking God's face as at former times, for it is recorded that...'He (God) repented of the evil'(1 Chronicle 21:15); and in his prayer after that David clearly confessed before God, how much it was his fault.
Note this, first, he didn't blame it on the devil or on other factors as many of us would do, rather he took whole responsibility for his actions. This he did because he understood that while manipulations and wrong counsel may sometimes get the better part of you, every action was a decision. And every decision was a choice you made one way or the other.
And secondly, he willingly was ready to sacrifice himself for the people; he was willing to fore-go the pleasantries of royalty just so that common men might be saved. It reminds me of Moses who asked God to blot his name out of His book of life even if that's what it would cost to forgive and redeem the wayward Israelis. Reminds you of Jesus too, right? He took into consideration the mere man before his humanly 'me' desires to save and promote himself.
And this I say not because I pictured the scenario, but because it is stated...'O LORD my God, be on me..........but not on Thy people' (v. 17).
Jesus said the man who seeks to save his life shall lose it; David's actions didn't do that, rather he chose to lose it, yet saved not only it, but his people's as well.
Thus, how responsible are you as a leader? And when I say responsible, I do not mean the burdensome mass of your task, but how much you'll indeed give yourself in a trade for your subjects. Jesus is considered a perfect leader because He was a perfect giver even to the point of his death; and it isn't so just because He was responsible to do it, but because He actually did it. Having a responsibility is totally different from fulfilling it. Having one gives you a title of leadership, fulfilling it makes you the leader you should be.
So, tell me, with all we have seen here, how responsible do you feel you have been thus far? Think on these things. But don't just think, do!
- Becoming The Effective Leader God Desires (2)
Let's take this as a sequel for our previous study on leadership.
With the insight that a leader other than being a visioneer, a thinker, a dreamer, and a doer must also of great importance be a selfless man.
For instance, let's study David a bit: At a point when doom spelled upon Israel; pain, death, fear, had so much as crippled the fetus still being formed in the womb, David showed one other quality of a leader that can never be bypassed.
Though this evil effect was as a result of David's wrong actions of calling on a census of the people, he took responsibility for his actions.....and so thus, the second great attribute is Responsibility.
A leader must always see himself responsible both for things that are directly under his watch, and even those that aren't. He must be willing to say 'I'm responsible' even when it was his subject who hit the rudder in the wrong direction; not because he was humanly responsible, but because as the general, the faults of his subject are also his, so also as their glories are also his.
Back to David; when the plague had so much as cut across one-third of the once well pastured land of Israel, I presume David never stopped seeking God's face as at former times, for it is recorded that...'He (God) repented of the evil'(1 Chronicle 21:15); and in his prayer after that David clearly confessed before God, how much it was his fault.
Note this, first, he didn't blame it on the devil or on other factors as many of us would do, rather he took whole responsibility for his actions. This he did because he understood that while manipulations and wrong counsel may sometimes get the better part of you, every action was a decision. And every decision was a choice you made one way or the other.
And secondly, he willingly was ready to sacrifice himself for the people; he was willing to fore-go the pleasantries of royalty just so that common men might be saved. It reminds me of Moses who asked God to blot his name out of His book of life even if that's what it would cost to forgive and redeem the wayward Israelis. Reminds you of Jesus too, right? He took into consideration the mere man before his humanly 'me' desires to save and promote himself.
And this I say not because I pictured the scenario, but because it is stated...'O LORD my God, be on me..........but not on Thy people' (v. 17).
Jesus said the man who seeks to save his life shall lose it; David's actions didn't do that, rather he chose to lose it, yet saved not only it, but his people's as well.
Thus, how responsible are you as a leader? And when I say responsible, I do not mean the burdensome mass of your task, but how much you'll indeed give yourself in a trade for your subjects. Jesus is considered a perfect leader because He was a perfect giver even to the point of his death; and it isn't so just because He was responsible to do it, but because He actually did it. Having a responsibility is totally different from fulfilling it. Having one gives you a title of leadership, fulfilling it makes you the leader you should be.
So, tell me, with all we have seen here, how responsible do you feel you have been thus far? Think on these things. But don't just think, do!
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