I admit it. I can’t swim. I had swimming lessons and they just didn’t seem to take. As a result of my swimming ‘unprowess’, I hate to have my face underwater. It makes me extremely uncomfortable, and makes me start to hyper-ventilate (I know, it is sad). With all of that said, it may seem a little unusual that the title of this post is ‘Water World’. But the truth is, God wants us underwater.
I am serious.
God wants us underwater and over our heads. Because the dream that God has for us is bigger than us. If it isn’t too big, then it probably isn’t from God. If it doesn’t stretch us, or challenge us, then we won’t need God to bring it to pass. God’s intention is to give us a dream that we have to grow into.
Because God brings BIG DREAMS about by growing BIG DREAMERS.
We are nearing the end of the year. This is the time where magazines, TV shows, talk shows hosts, and internet sites take the time to rank or assess this year’s happenings. What was the best, the biggest, the brightest.
Even though most of this stuff is completely useless, there is value in taking the time and reviewing where you have been in preparation to where you are going. Too often we are so caught up with the daily hustle and bustle that we have no space to reflect on our past to help set a foundation for our future.
After we have all the year end reflection period, we transition into the New Year resolution phase. We are resolving this, and resolving that. I mean to do this and mean to do that. While there is too much fluff attached to these ‘resolutions’, there is power in making a decision and commitment to change.
As I reflect on the year that I had, it has been incredibly trying, humbling, frustrating, joyful, exhilarating, and many other things. I have learned things about myself that I didn’t know. I have experienced a new level of leadership in a completely different role. I am growing as a husband and a father. There are things that I overcame, and challenges that I have yet to overcome. In every aspect of my life I have had both victory and defeat. As the old saying goes, “You can’t win them all”.
But as 2007 comes to a close, I don’t want to experience the same areas of defeat in 2008. I want to win where I was losing, and maintain victory in the areas where I was already in the Winner’s Circle. I want to resolve that 2008 will be a year of progress, new horizons, and new beginnings.
And as I prepare for 2008, I know that like every year I have had, it never turns out exactly like I planned. But that is part of the adventure.
Lack of Authenticity: The place where actions are divorced from what is truly in our hearts. We say one thing, but do another. Do the right thing on the outside, but inside are another person. We ‘go through the motions’ but there is no real life in us.
Presence of Apathy: The circumstance where we are theologically and philosophically sound, but with little to no action supporting our theology or philosophy. We argue for the ‘truth of the bible’ but never read it, we believe in prayer but never do it, talk about the need to reach the ‘lost’, but don’t ever engage ourselves in the effort to reach them. We are equivalent of the spiritual couch potato/armchair quarterback.
One Enemy deals with a wrong heart, the other with wrong action (or the right action for the wrong reasons).
One Enemy is a tree with no root, the other as branch with no fruit.
As Christ followers we are to have right hearts, and right fruit that is evidence that a our heart is in the right place.
3 Questions to ask ourselves to assess where our heart is, and who we are really serving:
1. Who are we becoming?
Are we growing and getting nearer to God? Are we growing in our relationships? Are we better leaders? Does we leave an atmosphere of life or death behind us as we journey through life? Are we blessing others by who we becoming?
2. What are we doing?
Our actions and words communicate who we really are and what is going on in our hearts. If we are consistently giving ourselves to activity that draws us away from the presence of God and into the presence of sin, then something is wrong. But as we invest our passion and life into good things, those good things and good actions bring blessing into our life, to God, and into the lives of others.
3. How are we doing what we are doing?
Right actions born out of the right heart have a certain energy, excellence, and enthusiasm. If we don’t have enough of our heart engaged to do our best, then we need to reassess either the activity or the position of our heart.
Remember: Heaven is our final destination, destiny and place of ultimate fulfillment. What we do now on this side of eternity determines where we will spend our forever, and to a large degree, the manner in which we will spend it.
Christmas is almost here. What are you most thankful for? Where in your life have you been blessed?
I have been blessed with a great wife and wonderful daughters. I am leading a great church with great people, with a bright future. I have Jesus Christ in my life and joy in my heart.
Have you ever had something to do, or somewhere to go and an unexpected interruption offered you an usual choice? You see, most of us pray dangerous prayers and ask God to use our lives to help change the world. At times with passionate cries and tears, we surrender ourselves to the will of God. Whatever He desires, we are anxious to do, whatever cost we are happy to pay.
But what happens when the entry way to a miracle is inconvienient? How are we supposed to react when we are in a rush, or on the phone or pre-occupied? When we are not in the mood? Malcolm Gladwell in his landmark book, ‘the Tipping Point’ tells the 1964 story of a New York woman named Kitty Genovese who was attacked 3 times and chased by an assailant (and later killed) while 38 people watched from their windows and heard her screams. But though they were witnesses to this terrible crime, they stood back and did nothing.
Like the priest and the scribe who hurried by a broken and beaten countryman that lay in the street in Jesus’ story about the Good Samaritan, these people had the power to change history before it happened. Maybe they could have saved a life. Maybe not. But they didn’t even try.
Most of us are not presented with such dramatic and dangerous opportunitities on a daily basis. But we never know when we could change a life, or at least someone’s day for the good.
Two days ago I got the chance.
It was Thursday and I was spending the day away from the office to study and collect my thoughts. Sunday was fast approaching and it had already been a full week.
Unaccounted for moments had become few and far between, so I was thankful for a few hours to pray, read, and relax. After reading a couple chapters out of the book of Hebrews, I decided to get out the house and take a run. It is amazing how often God inspires me with new thoughts, new ideas, and new vision when I am out jogging. So I changed into my workout gear, tied my Nikes up tight, and took off.
Less that 15 minutes into the run, I saw an elderly woman walking feebly in front of me on the sidewalk. She wobbled a bit as she walked and appeared as if she might be dizzy.
Because I didn’t want to startle her by running beside her on the sidewalk, I bounded into the street and kept moving. As I ran by I turned back to say “good morning” and to see if she was okay. As I did that, she motioned her hand and waved me over.
“Do you know where the bus stop is? And how far is the credit union?”
After speaking with her for a couple moments I discovered that she had been walking for a very long time. She was 83 years old, and she needed to get to the bank but her children didn’t want her to drive anymore. So she took it upon herself to walk to the credit union from her house that was at least 5 plus (low estimate) miles away. She was visibly exhausted and her breathing was labored. After I asked her how she was doing she explained to me that she had hip replacement surgery two years ago and that area was starting to hurt because of the long walk.
I stood there looking at the little old lady.
I wasn’t sure what to do. I didn’t have a car, no phone, and even though she didn’t look too heavy I couldn’t put her on my back and carry her to the bank or to her house. I wasn’t sure how much the bus fare was or where the nearest bust stop even was. And I had a run to finish. I mean, I was out here to exercise, but I really wanted God to speak to me.
What should I do? What was the right thing to do?
I thought I could wish her the best, pray a quick prayer and take off.
I thought about running to a telephone booth and calling for help.
But I knew I needed to do something, didn’t have any money, and when is the last time you saw a phone booth anyway? With the explosion of wireless phones, payphones are more scarce that a reasonable gas price.
Maybe I could knock on someone’s door to use their phone to call for some help.
Well, even though I was trying to help a little old woman, it would be pretty awkward for me, a strange man standing on someone’s doorstep trying to explain this whole situation and not sound crazy, like a liar, or a home invader.
So, turned and ran back to my office which was about 10 or so minutes away to speak to my Admin Assistant about giving this lady a ride back to the credit union and then back to her house.
Before I took off, I told her what I was going to do and how I was going to try to help.
The woman gave a surprised smile and asked, “Are you an angel?”
After running as fast as I could, I got to our offices and told Allison the whole story. She and I went to meet this woman who was standing by a fence waiting for us.
She was overjoyed and thankful when we got there and attempted to give us her bus fare as payment for our trouble (we kindly refused).
But how often are we so pre-occupied with our “stuff” that we are not able to partner with God to do a miracle?
Who on our daily ‘run’ has God called us to reach, but we couldn’t because we weren’t listening?
I am just happy, that on a Thursday in December I at least got one right.
You never know if today is the day where we are going to change history, make someone smile, or even save a life.
“He has made everything beautiful in its time” Ecclesiastes 3:11
The title ‘Beautifully Human’ wasn’t my idea. I borrowed it from singer/actress Jill Scott’s 2004 CD ‘Beautifully Human’. When we think about our own humanity, our quirks, inconsistencies, and idiosyncrasies; we can come up with a dictionary worth of words and…..’beautiful’ probably isn’t one of them.
Ugly, awkward, weird might fit. But not beautiful.
The truth of the matter is, God looks at what He created and sees our good not the bad and the ugly.
When one of my little girls wake up in the morning and their hair is not combed, and their teeth haven’t been brushed, I still smile and think they are beautiful.
Why?
Because I am looking at them through the lens of my love.
The outer stuff makes little difference. If fact, their flaws make them even more unique and wonderful.
Even though it may not seem like it, but God is making something beautiful on the inside of us.
I was reading and studying a few nights ago and my youngest daughter Raina walked into the room. I shouldn’t say she walked in really, she was more bouncing than walking. She was so excited that she had a tape measure. She was measuring everything. Measuring the wall, the window-sill, the floor. After taking the time to do all of that, she finally gets to measuring herself. After completing the task she snaps the tape measure back in place and smiles.
Then she screams aloud in joy: “I am 7 inches, I am 7 inches, I am 7 inches Daddy!”
Now she may not be the tallest person in the world, but she is much bigger than 7 inches.
The problem she had in her measurements centered around 2 things:
1. She didn’t know what she was doing.
2. She was measuring herself.
When we look at our lives, we have a tendency to size ourselves up and assess our own potential. We compare ourselves to others or use complex metrics to compute our progress. But we always get it wrong. We either underestimate or exaggerate how tall we really are. And the reason we miss the mark is because we:
1. Don’t know what we are doing.
2. We are measuring ourselves.
We must allow the word of God to be the standard. And we can’t see with our natural eyes the hidden seeds He has sown into us that have yet to sprout and grow. We can’t allow the lens and the negativity of others hold us back from what God created us to do and to become. It doesn’t take into account faith, God’s power, or God’s providence.
Many times we find ourselves asking God to speak to us. I think that it is a good and proper request. But how many times do we look around and watch what God is doing all around us? When do we slow down and listen to what He is saying through the common experiences of the day? Whether it is the smile of a friend, the laugh of a child, or an unexpected conversation; God is always speaking.
We just are not looking or listening nearly often enough.
Praise is the platform to launch us into God’s presence. And the best time to praise is in the darkness. It is in this place where frivolity dies, and the authentic finds true life.
Where the focus is not on us.
Beyond our likes and dislikes, past our comforts and comfort zone, light years away from the land of Whim and Gripe.
When we have to dig deep to reach for God.
When our voice is cracking and there is no choir, we have to praise.
When others are abandoning the mission, when we are lonely and scared, we have to praise.
It is not easy to make a decision to take a step toward God, when we can barely see the path to get there.
And the decision we make toward God will be tested.
Tested in the furnace of trial.
Many run when the fire comes.
But some won’t.
They will stay.
And they will praise.
And their praise will be the platform to launch into God’s presence and His purpose.
This picture sums up how I often feel when God is leading me through life, family, leadership, my relationship with Him, and everything in my world. I am just glad that He just asks us to obey, while He brings the breakthrough. Because the job, the assignment, and the journey are to big for us. But just right for Him.
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, ‘This was their finest hour’“.
-Winston Churchill
This is a quote from the prime minister prior to engaging in a fierce war with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi terror machine. It was in this season of crisis and conflict, that Churchill rose up with the boldness and bravery to lead the British into the conflict.
Ken Chenault, CEO of American Express says in relation to leadership, “we have to remember that reputations are won or lost in a crisis.”
Jesus Himself said in predicting His upcoming death by crucifixion,“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this is the purpose for which I was sent.” (John 12:27)
It is in the crucible of crisis that our purpose is truly realized, and the destined dream becomes real. Many people spend all of their lives trying to avoid the moment for which they were born.
Every great leader was defined by what their actions were in moments of conflict and challenge, not those in times of tranquility and peace.
Perhaps the crisis that we are facing today, is the destined door we have been looking for our whole life.
Maybe the present day conflict is the invitation to our finest hour.
I admit it. I can’t swim. I had swimming lessons and they just didn’t seem to take. As a result of my swimming ‘unprowess’, I hate to have my face underwater. It makes me extremely uncomfortable, and makes me start to hyper-ventilate (I know, it is sad). With all of that said, it may seem a little unusual that the title of this post is ‘Water World’. But the truth is, God wants us underwater.
I am serious.
God wants us underwater and over our heads. Because the dream that God has for us is bigger than us. If it isn’t too big, then it probably isn’t from God. If it doesn’t stretch us, or challenge us, then we won’t need God to bring it to pass. God’s intention is to give us a dream that we have to grow into.
Because God brings BIG DREAMS about by growing BIG DREAMERS.
Happy New Year.
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We are nearing the end of the year. This is the time where magazines, TV shows, talk shows hosts, and internet sites take the time to rank or assess this year’s happenings. What was the best, the biggest, the brightest.
Even though most of this stuff is completely useless, there is value in taking the time and reviewing where you have been in preparation to where you are going. Too often we are so caught up with the daily hustle and bustle that we have no space to reflect on our past to help set a foundation for our future.
After we have all the year end reflection period, we transition into the New Year resolution phase. We are resolving this, and resolving that. I mean to do this and mean to do that. While there is too much fluff attached to these ‘resolutions’, there is power in making a decision and commitment to change.
As I reflect on the year that I had, it has been incredibly trying, humbling, frustrating, joyful, exhilarating, and many other things. I have learned things about myself that I didn’t know. I have experienced a new level of leadership in a completely different role. I am growing as a husband and a father. There are things that I overcame, and challenges that I have yet to overcome. In every aspect of my life I have had both victory and defeat. As the old saying goes, “You can’t win them all”.
But as 2007 comes to a close, I don’t want to experience the same areas of defeat in 2008. I want to win where I was losing, and maintain victory in the areas where I was already in the Winner’s Circle. I want to resolve that 2008 will be a year of progress, new horizons, and new beginnings.
And as I prepare for 2008, I know that like every year I have had, it never turns out exactly like I planned. But that is part of the adventure.
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2 Enemies of our Nearness to God:
Lack of Authenticity: The place where actions are divorced from what is truly in our hearts. We say one thing, but do another. Do the right thing on the outside, but inside are another person. We ‘go through the motions’ but there is no real life in us.
Presence of Apathy: The circumstance where we are theologically and philosophically sound, but with little to no action supporting our theology or philosophy. We argue for the ‘truth of the bible’ but never read it, we believe in prayer but never do it, talk about the need to reach the ‘lost’, but don’t ever engage ourselves in the effort to reach them. We are equivalent of the spiritual couch potato/armchair quarterback.
One Enemy deals with a wrong heart, the other with wrong action (or the right action for the wrong reasons).
One Enemy is a tree with no root, the other as branch with no fruit.
As Christ followers we are to have right hearts, and right fruit that is evidence that a our heart is in the right place.
3 Questions to ask ourselves to assess where our heart is, and who we are really serving:
1. Who are we becoming?
Are we growing and getting nearer to God? Are we growing in our relationships? Are we better leaders? Does we leave an atmosphere of life or death behind us as we journey through life? Are we blessing others by who we becoming?
2. What are we doing?
Our actions and words communicate who we really are and what is going on in our hearts. If we are consistently giving ourselves to activity that draws us away from the presence of God and into the presence of sin, then something is wrong. But as we invest our passion and life into good things, those good things and good actions bring blessing into our life, to God, and into the lives of others.
3. How are we doing what we are doing?
Right actions born out of the right heart have a certain energy, excellence, and enthusiasm. If we don’t have enough of our heart engaged to do our best, then we need to reassess either the activity or the position of our heart.
Remember: Heaven is our final destination, destiny and place of ultimate fulfillment. What we do now on this side of eternity determines where we will spend our forever, and to a large degree, the manner in which we will spend it.
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Christmas is almost here. What are you most thankful for? Where in your life have you been blessed?
I have been blessed with a great wife and wonderful daughters. I am leading a great church with great people, with a bright future. I have Jesus Christ in my life and joy in my heart.
What about you?
Merry Christmas.
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Have you ever had something to do, or somewhere to go and an unexpected interruption offered you an usual choice? You see, most of us pray dangerous prayers and ask God to use our lives to help change the world. At times with passionate cries and tears, we surrender ourselves to the will of God. Whatever He desires, we are anxious to do, whatever cost we are happy to pay.
But what happens when the entry way to a miracle is inconvienient? How are we supposed to react when we are in a rush, or on the phone or pre-occupied? When we are not in the mood? Malcolm Gladwell in his landmark book, ‘the Tipping Point’ tells the 1964 story of a New York woman named Kitty Genovese who was attacked 3 times and chased by an assailant (and later killed) while 38 people watched from their windows and heard her screams. But though they were witnesses to this terrible crime, they stood back and did nothing.
Like the priest and the scribe who hurried by a broken and beaten countryman that lay in the street in Jesus’ story about the Good Samaritan, these people had the power to change history before it happened. Maybe they could have saved a life. Maybe not. But they didn’t even try.
Most of us are not presented with such dramatic and dangerous opportunitities on a daily basis. But we never know when we could change a life, or at least someone’s day for the good.
Two days ago I got the chance.
It was Thursday and I was spending the day away from the office to study and collect my thoughts. Sunday was fast approaching and it had already been a full week.
Unaccounted for moments had become few and far between, so I was thankful for a few hours to pray, read, and relax. After reading a couple chapters out of the book of Hebrews, I decided to get out the house and take a run. It is amazing how often God inspires me with new thoughts, new ideas, and new vision when I am out jogging. So I changed into my workout gear, tied my Nikes up tight, and took off.
Less that 15 minutes into the run, I saw an elderly woman walking feebly in front of me on the sidewalk. She wobbled a bit as she walked and appeared as if she might be dizzy.
Because I didn’t want to startle her by running beside her on the sidewalk, I bounded into the street and kept moving. As I ran by I turned back to say “good morning” and to see if she was okay. As I did that, she motioned her hand and waved me over.
“Do you know where the bus stop is? And how far is the credit union?”
After speaking with her for a couple moments I discovered that she had been walking for a very long time. She was 83 years old, and she needed to get to the bank but her children didn’t want her to drive anymore. So she took it upon herself to walk to the credit union from her house that was at least 5 plus (low estimate) miles away. She was visibly exhausted and her breathing was labored. After I asked her how she was doing she explained to me that she had hip replacement surgery two years ago and that area was starting to hurt because of the long walk.
I stood there looking at the little old lady.
I wasn’t sure what to do. I didn’t have a car, no phone, and even though she didn’t look too heavy I couldn’t put her on my back and carry her to the bank or to her house. I wasn’t sure how much the bus fare was or where the nearest bust stop even was. And I had a run to finish. I mean, I was out here to exercise, but I really wanted God to speak to me.
What should I do? What was the right thing to do?
I thought I could wish her the best, pray a quick prayer and take off.
I thought about running to a telephone booth and calling for help.
But I knew I needed to do something, didn’t have any money, and when is the last time you saw a phone booth anyway? With the explosion of wireless phones, payphones are more scarce that a reasonable gas price.
Maybe I could knock on someone’s door to use their phone to call for some help.
Well, even though I was trying to help a little old woman, it would be pretty awkward for me, a strange man standing on someone’s doorstep trying to explain this whole situation and not sound crazy, like a liar, or a home invader.
So, turned and ran back to my office which was about 10 or so minutes away to speak to my Admin Assistant about giving this lady a ride back to the credit union and then back to her house.
Before I took off, I told her what I was going to do and how I was going to try to help.
The woman gave a surprised smile and asked, “Are you an angel?”
After running as fast as I could, I got to our offices and told Allison the whole story. She and I went to meet this woman who was standing by a fence waiting for us.
She was overjoyed and thankful when we got there and attempted to give us her bus fare as payment for our trouble (we kindly refused).
But how often are we so pre-occupied with our “stuff” that we are not able to partner with God to do a miracle?
Who on our daily ‘run’ has God called us to reach, but we couldn’t because we weren’t listening?
I am just happy, that on a Thursday in December I at least got one right.
You never know if today is the day where we are going to change history, make someone smile, or even save a life.
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“He has made everything beautiful in its time” Ecclesiastes 3:11
The title ‘Beautifully Human’ wasn’t my idea. I borrowed it from singer/actress Jill Scott’s 2004 CD ‘Beautifully Human’. When we think about our own humanity, our quirks, inconsistencies, and idiosyncrasies; we can come up with a dictionary worth of words and…..’beautiful’ probably isn’t one of them.
Ugly, awkward, weird might fit. But not beautiful.
The truth of the matter is, God looks at what He created and sees our good not the bad and the ugly.
When one of my little girls wake up in the morning and their hair is not combed, and their teeth haven’t been brushed, I still smile and think they are beautiful.
Why?
Because I am looking at them through the lens of my love.
The outer stuff makes little difference. If fact, their flaws make them even more unique and wonderful.
Even though it may not seem like it, but God is making something beautiful on the inside of us.
He makes everything beautiful in its time.
Even when our teeth are not brushed.
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I was reading and studying a few nights ago and my youngest daughter Raina walked into the room. I shouldn’t say she walked in really, she was more bouncing than walking. She was so excited that she had a tape measure. She was measuring everything. Measuring the wall, the window-sill, the floor. After taking the time to do all of that, she finally gets to measuring herself. After completing the task she snaps the tape measure back in place and smiles.
Then she screams aloud in joy: “I am 7 inches, I am 7 inches, I am 7 inches Daddy!”
Now she may not be the tallest person in the world, but she is much bigger than 7 inches.
The problem she had in her measurements centered around 2 things:
1. She didn’t know what she was doing.
2. She was measuring herself.
When we look at our lives, we have a tendency to size ourselves up and assess our own potential. We compare ourselves to others or use complex metrics to compute our progress. But we always get it wrong. We either underestimate or exaggerate how tall we really are. And the reason we miss the mark is because we:
1. Don’t know what we are doing.
2. We are measuring ourselves.
We must allow the word of God to be the standard. And we can’t see with our natural eyes the hidden seeds He has sown into us that have yet to sprout and grow. We can’t allow the lens and the negativity of others hold us back from what God created us to do and to become. It doesn’t take into account faith, God’s power, or God’s providence.
Only God can measure us right.
And with Him, there is no limit.
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Many times we find ourselves asking God to speak to us. I think that it is a good and proper request. But how many times do we look around and watch what God is doing all around us? When do we slow down and listen to what He is saying through the common experiences of the day? Whether it is the smile of a friend, the laugh of a child, or an unexpected conversation; God is always speaking.
We just are not looking or listening nearly often enough.
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Praise is the platform to launch us into God’s presence. And the best time to praise is in the darkness. It is in this place where frivolity dies, and the authentic finds true life.
Where the focus is not on us.
Beyond our likes and dislikes, past our comforts and comfort zone, light years away from the land of Whim and Gripe.
When we have to dig deep to reach for God.
When our voice is cracking and there is no choir, we have to praise.
When others are abandoning the mission, when we are lonely and scared, we have to praise.
It is not easy to make a decision to take a step toward God, when we can barely see the path to get there.
And the decision we make toward God will be tested.
Tested in the furnace of trial.
Many run when the fire comes.
But some won’t.
They will stay.
And they will praise.
And their praise will be the platform to launch into God’s presence and His purpose.
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This picture sums up how I often feel when God is leading me through life, family, leadership, my relationship with Him, and everything in my world. I am just glad that He just asks us to obey, while He brings the breakthrough. Because the job, the assignment, and the journey are to big for us. But just right for Him.
You ready?
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, ‘This was their finest hour’“.
-Winston Churchill
This is a quote from the prime minister prior to engaging in a fierce war with Adolf Hitler’s Nazi terror machine. It was in this season of crisis and conflict, that Churchill rose up with the boldness and bravery to lead the British into the conflict.
Ken Chenault, CEO of American Express says in relation to leadership, “we have to remember that reputations are won or lost in a crisis.”
Jesus Himself said in predicting His upcoming death by crucifixion,“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this is the purpose for which I was sent.” (John 12:27)
It is in the crucible of crisis that our purpose is truly realized, and the destined dream becomes real. Many people spend all of their lives trying to avoid the moment for which they were born.
Every great leader was defined by what their actions were in moments of conflict and challenge, not those in times of tranquility and peace.
Perhaps the crisis that we are facing today, is the destined door we have been looking for our whole life.
Maybe the present day conflict is the invitation to our finest hour.
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