The Alpha of Leadership

UV 3077/10000 The Alpha of Leadership
For thou art my rock and my fortress; therefore for thy name's sake lead me, and guide me.
Psalm 31 v 3


The Lord as our rock and fortress is our true leader. He is the source of both spiritual strength, vision, provision and protection. True leadership is God-led leadership and godly leadership. The purpose of leadership is to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide them into the paths of peace, righteousness and eternal life. Jesus dismissed the worldly models of leadership in one sentence, “The blind leading the blind.” Like the blind who do not know where they came from, where they are and where they are going, the world’s leaders do not know where they came from, where they are and where they are going. Such blind leaders lead people into the ditch of history and of life. They are blinded by the lust for power, ambition, selfishness, pride and arrogance.

The name “Jesus” means “He saves”. Once He saves us, He leads us daily not into temptation and evil but away from darkness or evil. He shines the light of His truth on our lives such that the shadows of death, diseases, curses are driven away. As the Psalmist David wrote, “He leads us besides still waters” of His word to feed us with hope and knowledge of His love. The worldly models of leadership are built on the cornerstone of power and exploitation while the God-led model is one of love and service.
Worldly leadership is always afflicted by shortcomings or hamartia while Godly leadership is marked by abundance of grace, peace and joy. Worldly leadership is prone to folly and failure while godly leadership is marked by “hyperbole” or exceeding expectations, goals, targets. Worldly leadership relies on knowledge while godly leadership is more about wisdom. Godly leadership is transformative. Worldly leadership relies more on the intellect while godly leadership relies on the spirit. Godly leaders are open to supernatural communication, revelations, intuition and divinely granted insights. The former rely on their physical charisma, their abilities and natural skills while godly leaders rely on the grace and power of God, knowing that their own abilities and knowledge is limited while the power and love of God are equally infinite.