Proverbs 30:5 (NLV) Every word of God has been proven true. (DARBY) "Every word of God is pure..."
Today is Passover on the Jewish Calendar – a beginning of a celebration of God’s word being true providing hope. Biblical hope is not based on some outlandish wish or desire for something that has no basis in reality. As death passed over the first-born of the children Israel, so our hope remains in the reality of the Word of God. That it is true. Pure in its original autographs. Its promises continually fulfilled.
As leaders, we are charged with providing pure hope for those following – hope, that in managing change, we maintain integrity (that which whole and complete and proven true). Something that is pure needs nothing added to it: in fact, whatever is added renders it to be no long pure.
Followers rely on their leaders – especially when a business is struggling – and therefore we must be well centered (knowing our purpose, knitting into our behavior a standard of ethics) and we must control our thoughts and behaviors; then are able to influence others to follow because we are well grounded and filled with real hope.
Leaders, whose model is Scripture, have hope and expectation, because, like those Jews in New Testament times, who recognized Jesus as Messiah and the fulfiller of their Hope, He still fulfills our hope if we keep our eyes focused on Him with our “self-talk” and not on us or our circumstances.
Our hope is not only in His return again, but also in His promise that in our daily living, He is our shield - our protector. He is our hope for a reason: we must not only live in hope - our life must also reflect that hope within us.
Our hope has meaning. So should our lives. Does your life offer hope?
Copyright © 2010 by P. Griffith Lindell
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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I would certainly Hope that my life offers hope to others. Hope should add meaning and/or value to those I meet and greet daily. Hope is more important that we often think. Especially, as you say, during difficult times. In giving hope to others you get hope for yourself. It is substantive, tangible, real. Without it we truly would perish. How sad it would be if we had not hope.
It is hope that keeps us from doing the wrong things and guides us to do the right things in business and in personal relationships. Although hope is by definition futuristic in time, my greatest benefit is what it gives me now. It changes my focus from wow is me to I know it will be fine in the end.
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