Leadership realities
What is leadership realities. How many of you have read books about balance in your life, about margin, about living by your priorities, about making plans and steps to achieve your goals? We all have and there are many good points in these books to learn from and apply. But reality doesn’t mean life will become like a “well-oiled” machine. Rather, I find leaders living lives in tension, in pressure, in chaos, in confusion, in great and overwhelming challenges. When you read the life of Jesus and of Paul which do you find? A nice and tidy, well organized and balanced life or a life that is full of tension, needing to be constantly adjusted, painful, bloody, with tears, pressures from without and fears within?
If you find tension and such in your life as a leader be of good cheer. You are in good company. As Paul said, there is a wide door for effective service for me and there are many adversaries. So, be all the more sure of your calling for, leadership is no cake walk.
