Holding The Rod

There is something of importance about being the head of any flock. As we go through life we are availed with many opportunities to lead, many opportunities to suggest direction and persuade many to move in that direction while enjoying it as their direction of first choice.

When we assume leadership we assume a resposibility that requires us to be led. Every leader ought to be willing to subject to leadership. Leadership of reason, of purpose, leadership of those things greater than him and yet with him. I have observed many situations in which the leader sucumbed to the misleadership of those other forces like greed or even fear.

In the shoes of the leader is a persistent desire and comitment to stay ahead. When we realise that something other than that which greater than us for the common good is leading we ought to ask ourselve what it is we are now serving. We are required to keep the greater purpose in mind and in focus and to know that those we lead suck the very energy with which we serve that greater purpose.

But this never means that we hold the steering wheel alone. On the contrary, it means that we teach as many as we can to hold that steering wheel with us. Our goal is to lead in a way that allows many to lead while being led. It may seem complex but once we understand how important it is, we also understand how to communicate our leadership.

Leadership is communicated everytime we communicate that purpose that is greater than us. But even as we do that we make sure that we communicate it from the people that we are leading. It is an art of presentation, of understanding truely what our interests are and what our individual interests are. The leader who presents to the nation the nation the need to industrialise is not the same as that otherone that leads a nation into industrialisation. One speaks to , and the other communicates with the nation. What we present is what we, collectively should be willing to do.

When we think of those we lead, we should be thinking of ourselves as well. That is what it means to lead. We lead while being led. And yet we never hold the wheel alone. Who ever reads this today, I want you to meet the best leader I have ever met. The man Jesus.