running the race.

Thursday, July 20, 2006

i'm back to blogging again.
anyways, i have a deep thought on leadership as i was heading home.

Psalm 72
A psalm of Solomon.
1 Give justice to the king, O God, and righteousness to the king's son.
2 Help him judge your people in the right way; let the poor always be treated fairly.
3 May the mountains yield prosperity for all, and may the hills be fruitful, because the king does what is right.
4 Help him to defend the poor, to rescue the children of the needy, and to crush their oppressors.

The first question that starts me thinking was this,
'what is leadership all about?'
Many thoughts start to accumulate within my mind.
One word shows the simplicity and sublimity of it, Influence.

great! so what's this influence all about?
why did God instill this influence in our leadership?
Then i looked at psa78 frm the NLT version.
Solomon had great influence and power, at then.
but The irony is this, why did he still asked God for influence?
The answer came in verse 4.
The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who do have that influence.
It's not about leading trillions of people alone, but to help others to speak out.

Then i thought of leading people.
so many times we are concern and worry about growth in our groups.
but there's one truth that i hold onto.

our body is made of many complex system.
when they body is healthy it automatically grows.
so why worry about growth of the group?
i think the more important worry we ought to have is this,
am i healthy? is my group healthy?
is it fed with the substantial amount of word and living out christ.
Growth needs not to be forced out when we are healthy.

alright. i need to buzz off now.
davidhoe

till the end;3:30 PM