Authentic Leadership Demands Work

Proverbs 28:19 (NIV) He who works his land will have abundant food, but the one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

Working the land, like authentic leadership, is about doing the right stuff at the right time in the right amounts. There’s purpose to that working. There’s commitment to the values whose predicates are often long, tedious hours of “real work.” It’s about caring more for the “land” than for your comfort – there are days when certain work must be accomplished no matter how you feel. Working the land is also about capacity – rotating crops to benefit the soil or even resting the land:  both helping to yield more of the core crop. Whether it’s leading or growing in your journey of knowing God and making Him known, both take constant effort – work. Fantasy has no place in either pursuit. What are you working on?

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