Proverbs 22:24-25 (MSG) Don't hang out with angry people; don't keep company with hotheads. Bad temper is contagious— don't get infected.
How you influence others may well depend on how others influence you.
There is an undercurrent of anger about the economy, health care and America’s “place” in the world. Those issues are important and discussion about them vital. Small businesspeople must make tough decisions about staffing, inventory, sales – all sorts of business decisions – because these kinds of external factors play a role in how business “gets done.”
Notwithstanding the importance of collaboration, the servant-leader, who seeks to positively influence followers, must not allow clicks of the cankerous to be part of his/her circle of friends. God has called His followers to trust in Him, not the government, not cash flow, the budget, wars and rumors of wars. Him. Alone.
A great leader put it this way: “My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.1” Not the words of a hothead – a bad tempered or angry person. I’d like to hang out with him! Can’t – in person. But I look for people with this attitude. It influences by perspective.
Who is influencing you?
Copyright ©2010 by P. Griffith Lindell
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1Psalm 62:1-2
Thursday, April 22, 2010
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