Tonight for some reason, I cannot go to sleep. I’ve
been thinking and thinking and so I opened up my bible and read part of Mark 9.
One thing that stood out to me was verse 42.
Here is the verse:
“And whoever causes one of these little ones who
believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung
around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.”
This particular verse deals a lot with leading
other people and guiding them in their walk. It deals even more specifically,
with our own personal walk. There is one quote I’ve seen on every leadership
test that I’ve taken at Liberty and it goes kinda like, “to disciple someone
you must have a life worth emulating.” Leadership in it’s very beginning phases
is a lot like, “you see, I do,” and eventually goes on to the disciple doing,
and the leader seeing, but for the disciple to get to eventually do the work,
the leader has to lead by example. As Leaders, We MUST live by example because
what leaders do, the disciple will eventually do and apply to his/her life. We also
MUST make sure our actions are pure and free of sin and that involves seeking
God’s face and asking him to be brutally honest with us so we can work with him
to be more Christ-like because, as it says in the verse, “it would be better
for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into
the sea.”
