*DAILY DEW 6/AUGUST/2022*
*SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP* (IIIV)
_Key Bible Text:_
*"Instead, they must be friendly to strangers and enjoy doing good things. They must also be sensible, fair, pure, and self-controlled. They must stick to the true message they were taught, so that their good teaching can help others and correct everyone who opposes it."* (Titus 1:8-9 (CEV))
_Bible Insight:_
Spiritual leadership confers a non-negotiable obligation to become a servant leader. It is one that runs on the oil of sacrifice and patience. It is not a place for showmanship and carnal superiority complex or flexing of muscles. Spiritual leadership is a place that calls the leader to lay down his/her life for the led. It is no light matter.
Thus instead of being "bossy, quick-tempered, heavy drinkers, bullies, or dishonest in business" the spiritual leader is invited and mandated to do the direct opposite:-
1. Be friendly to strangers and enjoy doing good things: This is the duty of care to the uncared and unloved or unlovable. It is the duty of hospitality, warmness and devotion to good deeds.
2. They must also be sensible, fair, pure, and self-controlled: This is the duty for good sense of judgment, purity, and self-control. Spiritual leaders must never take justice, equity, fairness for granted. It is a mark that affirms how spiritual indeed a leader is.
Jesus applied this so many times. To the woman caught in the act of adultery, he applied a righteous sense and fairness to judge the matter, while commending the woman to a lifestyle of purity- "Go and sin no more". He himself led a pure & self controlled life, so well that he boldly asserts that the prince of this world comes and finds nothing against or in him. That's a man with spiritual leadership that has sanctified himself for the sake of his disciples. If Jesus would go that far, what excuse do you have, dear spiritual leader?
_MEDITATION:_
*Spiritual leadership strips the leader of the ego, pride and glam that could come with leadership. In its place, is the cloak of purity, sanctification, servant leadership and righteousness*
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