…make your ear open to wisdom. Turn your heart to understanding.
William Penn, in 1699 wrote, “No man is fit to command another that can not command himself.”
There are two commands in this verse – make open and turn. It’s a matter of the will. Demanding a choice. And it’s not any wisdom: The leadership stories in both Testaments provide foundational understanding of leading. Just knowing about them is not enough. We must turn our heart (including our head, hands and habits) – ah, there’s the rub!
What is naturally in us is all about us: what is supernaturally assimilated in us changes our focus to others. That’s the key to “servant leadership.” If you want to influence others, first allow yourself to be changed – the head and the heart internally, the hands and the habits externally.
Are you willing to be changed so you can lead like Jesus?
Copyright ©2007 by P. Griffith Lindell
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