Proverbs 16:2 (NLV) All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the thoughts of the heart.
In the forward of Insights on Leadership: Service, Stewardship, Spirit, and Servant-Leadership, Stephen Covey posits, "the power to cultivate servant-leadership comes from the individual. It's an inside-out approach."
And therein lays the real problem.
“Google” servant leadership and you may find as I did 1,160,000 results. A topic that drives some interest and not all are in agreement with the concept. The reason may be quite simple: the “inside” of humans must be changed before an authentic servant-heart emerges.
When the “going gets tough,” for those with hearts unchanged by their Creator, self-serving behavior drives decisions. Motives can be hidden except from the One who will judge the living and the dead. When what we do is about us and not about Him, our motives are wrong. Hard for us to “weigh” that one: our scales are weighted in our favor.
What motivates you - really?
Copyright © 2009 by P. Griffith Lindell
Thursday, April 16, 2009
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I love this one because it speaks to something that God whispered into my spirit recently. In my former company, one of the core values as established by leadership was "servant mentality". If nothing more, I walked away from that experience with a better understanding of what that means to me personally as a Christian AND an entreprenuer. It all winds down to this: when you strive to give more than you expect to receive in return, God will honor what is "of the heart" and will reward and bless exceeding abundantly. Selfish motives reap a limited harvest because their expectation is based on gaining from man but those whose motives are pure will be rewarded by our Father in heaven whose resources are unlimited!!
AMEN - Thank YOU for this feed back and insight and a very elegant expression of the core of servant "mentality." Spot on.
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