Matthew 22:14 -For many are called, but few are chosen.
Being a healthy and positive example for others to follow, is not an easy assignment that God gives many of his chosen children; however, someone must be given the job to lead others, and God may have just chosen you for leadership. Many times, when God calls his leaders, they have no idea that being a leader requires you to blaze a new trail and knock down doors, which other’s will be able to walk through with less effort. In the process of knocking down doors, there will be a great amount of molding that God will be taking you through, which will require a great amount of diligence, discipline, and obedience for you to endure. When God calls you to be a leader, it often means that you may be first in your family, your community, or amongst your friends to step out on faith and demonstrate public obedience to the will of God. This will seem strange to the people closest to you; however, you are not here to please an audience of many, you are here to please an audience of one. Being chosen by God comes with an immense amount of pressure, stress, anxiety, turmoil, and uncertainty, regarding how everything will come together and stay together, based on what God has placed in your hands to manage.
The good news is that God has placed leadership in your hands to manage; however, he did not place it in your hands to lead independently from him, and he did not place it in your hands to complete any assignment on your own. So, if you are feeling weighted by the pressures of leadership, I employ you to take a self- assessment of how you are leading. Ask yourself, are you truly allowing God to lead you or have you placed God in the passenger seat, instead of keeping him in the aviator’s seat. Whenever we feel like the task of leadership has become too much to uphold, we must quickly take an inventory of where we have placed God in our circumstances and readjust our gauge to ensure that we are dialed into the aviator’s commands, so that we can receive clear directions for the mission ahead.
As leaders we must ensure that we understand that being a leader requires that we are consistently being lead as well, and most importantly, that we are being lead righteously. Now many people have a difficult time realizing that we ALL bare the responsibility of leading someone in our life, whether that is a spouse, children, co-workers, friends, men, and women that are within certain social groups. We all are leading in some capacity. However, God chooses certain individuals to be leaders for specific assignments, according to his will and his word. So, if you feel and know that you are called by God, but you are experiencing a season of testing, struggle, uncertainty, doubt, anxiety, and loss of motivation, understand that these feelings are growing pains that help strengthen you for the uphill climb. God does not choose you, just to leave you. He chooses you, because he saw you fit for the mission and he knows that you cannot do what he is requiring of you, without him.
Obey God. Trust God. Walk with God.
His word shall be your strength.
Isaiah 41:10: “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand”.
Till we meet again,
Stay the course; the victory is already yours.
Your best is forward!
~ Joe
