Today's promise: God is in charge of the
world
Have you seen leaders
unable to overcome "drag coefficient"?
O God, have mercy on me.
The enemy troops press in on me. My foes attack me all day long. My slanderers
hound me constantly, and many are boldly attacking me.
Psalm 56:1-2 NLT
Without wise leadership, a
nation fails; with many counselors, there is safety.
Proverbs 11:14 NLT
The drag on leadership
Leaders have grand vision,
and great visions are reached overnight.… Leadership by nature pushes against a
high drag coefficient. Drag is the resistance air gives to the body of
airplanes or automobiles as they move through air.… The drag on leadership is
so great that it threatens to bring leaders to a grinding halt unless they have
an extraordinary level of God-inspired perseverance.
Leadership is more about
perseverance than about speed. Psalm 132:1 says, "Lord, remember David and
all that he suffered." David was one of the greatest — and most successful
— leaders in Israel's history, yet his life was marked by continual, extreme
hardship.
For example, after the
prophet Samuel anointed David as the next king of Israel, King Saul repeatedly
attempted to kill David. David had to wander in the desert and in foreign lands
for years as a fugitive with several hundred outcasts. David was the anointed
leader of Israel, but he endured a lifetime of hardships as Israel's shepherd.
So don't be surprised by
the drag coefficient of leadership. With God's help, you can endure it and
overcome.
CRAIG BRIAN LARSON
CRAIG BRIAN LARSON
adapted from Leadership Devotions compiled by the editors of
Christianity Today International, Tyndale House Publishers (2001), pp 170-71
Being a general calls for different talents from
being a soldier.
TITUS LIVY
TITUS LIVY
Content is derived from
the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
Publishing House
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