LEADERSHIP MINDSET

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I have learned that there is a differences in the MINDSETS of successful leaders as opposed to leaders who accept the status quo. Successful leaders realize that that LIFE IS SHORT, ETERNITY IS LONG and the STAKES ARE WAY TO HIGH TO PLAY GAMES WHEN IT COMES TO ETERNITY. I have also learned that the successful leaders MINDSET is VISION DRIVEN/FUTURE LOOKING. Moses one of God's amazing leaders in the Bible embraced this particular MINDSET and it led him in becoming one of God's choice leaders. If you know much about Moses' story you would realize that physically speaking Moses walked away from a life of fame and riches to follow the DREAM GOD HAD BURNED IN HIS HEART. The world would say that Moses sacrificed EVERYTHING for NOTHING. But when Moses turned his back on the pleasures and wealth of the world, he told us that he had SACRIFICED NOTHING FOR EVERYTHING!

As leaders I want to encourage us to keep our eyes fixed and focused on what matters most, ETERNITY, and GOD'S GLORY. Let's not sell out for the temporary highs of the world, but let's commit to living and doing ministry for the stuff that lasts forever! Very few of us, if any of us, have heard people at the end of their lives who wished they had worked more, or made more money, but we have heard people wish that they had taken their faith more seriously, and their families. I have spoken to many older church leaders who also looked back on their ministries and wished they hadn't wasted so much time on "ministry junk" that just didn't matter. Let's look to Moses and work towards adapting a MINDSET that realizes that when we sacrifice the temporary for the eternal we have really sacrificed nothing at all!

Hebrews 11:26, "He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to his great reward."


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