July 7, 2008

Leadership begins with the HEART

"For as a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7

I have often wondered why people can seem so totally committed to God, church, ministry---for a period of time---and then the next thing you know they are totally uncommitted and are content to do nothing. A great leader will consciously make a choice to allow the Holy Spirit to change him from the inside out---i.e. "a heart change". The reason we can be hot one minute and cold the next is because we choose to make a change in our behavior without allowing God to make a change in our heart. Since our heart has not been changed, our behavioral change reverts back to where our heart is.

A leader's heart reveals the character of the leader. Without a heart change we are only pretending. Leaders should never be satisfied with their current level of leadership. We should be continuously changing. However, those changes should be originated in our hearts. For in the heart is where leadership begins!

1 comment:

Jessi said...

These are great blogs! I never thought about it being a change in behavior that causes us to be hot and then cold in our walks with God. Very good point. It made me realize some things :)