A Leader is one who is able to foresee the future, it is not exactly a picture what the future will be, but with all the facts and numbers he is able to determine and chart the course for the ship to sail through the rough path. The storms and the waves may hit hard, but sailing through the tough times is the heart of what Leadership is. Godly Leaders like Noah, who got the vision that God told him about the rain made him to trust in God that God will save and he will provide a way out of it, Noah did not stop just by believing but acted on what God wanted him to do, building up the ship.
Moses is an other example of a Godly Leader who gave the instructions of law and lead the people of Israel into the promised land, there were difficulties on the way, but what kept these Leaders and many more in the Bible go through? Their trust was with God, God who made them, who put them in such situations and circumstances, who was there with them, who was in them, they were confident about the fact that if they just have Faith and Obey his words they will be saved, and all through the journey he was worshiped and glorified.
God turns everything for good, these little difficulties turns out to be the best possible way to make us, the Leaders and people understand who God is and what he can do for us.
Jesus led the people in the light, darkness blurs the vision, it even blinds the vision. The punishment for sin, death on cross - Jesus had a greater vision than any other Leader through out history of mankind, there will be no Leader like Jesus henceforth.
Jesus warns about those Leaders with out Vision, who says one thing and does the other.
Matthew 15:14 (KJV)
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The very reason he asks us to take up the cross, is to lift us up, to see a grander vision that he has for us, not to be condemned, not to be a slave, not to be in darkness. But to help us understand that the end will be the best, that he will be along us bearing our pains and listening to our cries, to bring the best in us, to see the vision that God loves us and he is Love, to bring us to the light, to make us salt of the earth, to redeem us from sin, to glorify his name, to be with him forever.
Moses is an other example of a Godly Leader who gave the instructions of law and lead the people of Israel into the promised land, there were difficulties on the way, but what kept these Leaders and many more in the Bible go through? Their trust was with God, God who made them, who put them in such situations and circumstances, who was there with them, who was in them, they were confident about the fact that if they just have Faith and Obey his words they will be saved, and all through the journey he was worshiped and glorified.
God turns everything for good, these little difficulties turns out to be the best possible way to make us, the Leaders and people understand who God is and what he can do for us.
Jesus led the people in the light, darkness blurs the vision, it even blinds the vision. The punishment for sin, death on cross - Jesus had a greater vision than any other Leader through out history of mankind, there will be no Leader like Jesus henceforth.
Jesus warns about those Leaders with out Vision, who says one thing and does the other.
Matthew 15:14 (KJV)
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
The very reason he asks us to take up the cross, is to lift us up, to see a grander vision that he has for us, not to be condemned, not to be a slave, not to be in darkness. But to help us understand that the end will be the best, that he will be along us bearing our pains and listening to our cries, to bring the best in us, to see the vision that God loves us and he is Love, to bring us to the light, to make us salt of the earth, to redeem us from sin, to glorify his name, to be with him forever.
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