KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 17:19 KJV” And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.”

This verse shows the real concern of the master for His followers. The Lord Jesus is by nature a holy and upright man. In this verse He focuses His attention on His disciples, seeking a life of holiness and uprightness from them. To see it in them He chooses to make His life an example to them. This is the best way for any leader to teach his followers various acts. It is by being the right example to them. This principle is replicated in the right parenting as well. Leadership is all about influencing your followers to do the right thing.

Every disciple is a learner. He follows by observing what his leader does and practices the same. This is the reason every great leader should first be a disciplined person. This is a product of humility. This is also the reason it is said that leaders are servants. The leader shows the way by doing.  Our master Jesus was the greatest leader of all time. He taught most of the lessons through practicing the act to his followers. His disciples came to Him asking to be taught to pray as they saw Him pray always. He built the desire to pray in them by demonstrating the act to them.

From our key scripture, the Lord walks according to the teachings of the truth. He walks in love, and perfected it by laying His life on the cross. He kept Himself by living a holy and upright life such that, Peter saw it and wrote in 1Peter 1:16 that ” …… Be ye holy; for I am holy”. The Lord demonstrated a life of holiness, and so demands holiness from us. The word of truth is the only standard for our lives. Live your life totally according to what it teaches. It is life and light. This statement means, it has the ability to make you do what it instructs you to do. Your part is to learn what the scripture teaches, believe it and practice it. When one believes the word, he would surely receive the ability to do what it says.

THOUGHT: GREAT LEADERS ARE DOERS THAN TALKERS.

FURTHER STUDIES

Matt 11:29 KJV” Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.”

Heb 12:2 KJV Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.