Don’t surrender leadership to:
Do surrender leadership to faith.
–Robert Schuller
He was looking forward to this moment all day long, after 6 days of labor and it finally arrived – Visiting Day!! The man with the keys arrived to swing open the large, heavy doors. The cold gray hall springs to life in the warm glow of light. He could hardly control his emotions.
The families began to arrive. He peers from the corner of the room longing for the first glimpse of his loved one. He lives for the
weekends. He dearly loves these visits. As the cars arrive, he watches intently. Then, finally, she arrives, his bride, for whom he would do anything. They embrace, eat a light lunch and reminisce how things used to be. At one point, they break into singing, with interruptions of laughter and applause.
But all to soon it is over. A tear comes to his eyes as his bride departs. Then the man with the keys closes the heavy doors. He hears the key turn in the lock marking the end of a special day. There he stands, alone again. He knows that most of his visitors will not contact him again till next week. As the last car pulls away from the parking lot, Jesus retreats into loneliness as He waits until next Sunday – Visiting Day.
Ken Blanchard, speaker, tells the story of going on a safari and following the steps of David Livingstone…the man who changed Africa.
When we went to Zambia, he flew into Livingstone, the only city there with an English name. He asked the guide why they didn’t get rid of the name when they became Zambia.
He loved us and cared about us. He stopped slavery here. He was a wonderful human being. He died there and they took his heart out. His body is in Westminster Abbey but his heart was there.
The same guide took Blanchard on a museum tour and it described they trek of Livingstone in Africa. The curator of the museum told them this museum – before we became Zambia was called “the Livingstone Roades Museum. After we became Zambia, we took Rhodes off the name. When asked why? He explained Cecil Rhodes was self-centered. He did it all for himself and made millions off of us. He lied and did it all for his own benefit…not ours. He
wanted his name on everything. David Livingstone wanted his name on nothing.
Isn’t it interesting that it’s his name they kept. HE WAS A SERVANT LEADER.
Are you a serving leader or self-serving leader?