I need a perfect leader

Daily writing promptDo you see yourself as a leader?View all responses

I need to follow a perfect leader. Too often who and/or what I have followed has led me in ways that were unhelpful and harmful. When I’ve followed my feelings and desires, they have deceived me. When I’ve followed my mind, I’ve swollen with pride. When I’ve followed happiness, it has eluded me.

Then one day I began to follow something that was happening inside of me that I couldn’t explain. It was a sense of spiritual awareness that the Creator wanted me to become conscious of His presence and to follow Him. Suddenly, I had a strange desire to read the Bible. I picked it up and was captivated by words that were burning in my heart and introducing me to the reality and presence of the risen Jesus Christ — the Perfect Leader. The Bible puts it this way: “Christ in you, the hope of glory.”

For more than five decades I’ve followed the living Jesus who speaks within me and confirms the objectivity of His words by amazingly describing the realities that I daily encounter within and around me. The Bible calls that being “led by the Spirit.”

I see myself as someone who continually seeks to set aside my own desires and feelings, and instead follow the living Jesus. I believe that as I daily seek to follow and obey Jesus that I set an example that encourages other people to also follow and obey the Perfect Leader. In that way, I see myself as a leader.

Even after being tortured and threatened with death, the first Christian “apostles” (which means “sent ones” in Greek) “never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Messiah.” Yet today we too easily let almost anything (from distractions to fear of being laughed at) stop us from talking about the risen Jesus and convince us that we haven’t also been sent to never stop testifying about Christ in us.

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