Leadership

“I’m no leader.  Nobody follows me.”

That may be true, but often times, there are people that God has put in your life that he does ask you to lead. 

If you’re a parent, you’re definitely a leader, and God calls you to lead your children. 

If you’re a husband, God asks you to lead your family. 

If you have people working under you at your job, you’re a leader.

And God gives us several things here for us to remember as leaders.

First, we are responsible to him. 

That’s why God told the Israelites that when they chose the king. He was to be a man that would write out, read, and follow all the commands that God had given the Israelites. 

We too are answerable to God.  As leaders, we need to be careful how we treat people and how we act in general because God will hold us accountable for it. 

In fact, as leaders, we are held more responsible than people that are not.

Second, we need to remember that though we are leaders and have a higher position than others, we are still not to consider ourselves better than them. 

All that we have comes from God, including our position of authority.  And so we are to treat others with the respect that we expect for ourselves.

Third, we shouldn’t be using our authority for the purpose of just making our lives comfortable.  Our purpose shouldn’t be to be served, as Jesus said, but to serve (Mark 10:45).

Finally, we are to lead as God leads us. 

God told the future kings that they were not to lead the people back to Egypt.  Rather, they were to stay in the land God had led them to. 

In the same way, we shouldn’t be going wherever we want, doing whatever we want.  Rather we need to be following God’s leading in our lives. 

Because as we do, we help lead others down the proper path as well.

How about you?  Are you a good leader?