KEY SCRIPTURE: John 18:8 KJV” Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way”:

Leadership is all about being able to influence your followers to go a particular way. One of the strongest means of giving a positive influence is to lead the way with a good example. Such examples are often seen in his selfless acts or loving deeds that show great care for his followers. Any leader who lacks selflessness is a poor leader and cannot be called a leader because he has nothing in him to stir his followers to follow.

After Judas and his men fell to the ground in their mission to arrest the Lord Jesus, He told them, I have told you, I am Jesus that you have come to arrest, then do no harm to my men with me. The Lord did not hide his identity, nor attempt to use any of his men as bait so he could escape. He readily gave up himself. He made sure His men would be left out. The Lord bore His own responsibility.

Every human being is a leader in a particular way. Everybody has a level of responsibility and therefore some level of influence. You therefore need to be selfless to sustain your sphere of influence. The market woman who is not disciplined with the use of her business earnings, but reckless with money, would soon realise her business is dead or has left her. My father Opanin Kofi Somuah of blessed memory said, ‘Be a servant to your business, and it will ever be there for you’. Nothing would stay with you if you were not responsible, disciplined, and selfless. Unfortunately, most African leaders find themselves as the worst culprits. Every leader should never allow a desire for personal comfort to be his longing, but rather the comfort of his followers. It is in securing their comfort, that you would receive the comfort that your followers would willingly bring to you.

THOUGHT: LEADERSHIP IS SACRIFICE THAT CHALLENGES FOLLOWERS TO GIVE THEIR BEST.

FURTHER STUDIES

2 Corinth 5:14 KJV” For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:”

1Corinth 4:9 KJV “For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.””