Thursday 4/9 – Week 12

As a leader, it is our job to be as perfect as we can. Although we try as hard as we can to not fail, we will inevitably fail. But we also are able, or should be able to gain knowledge from the failures of others that went before us or who work alongside us. But even if we are looking to those around us, we are going to fail. If we are always looking around, instead of up we are not going to be faithful to what God is leading us to do.

We aren’t always called be perfect however. As the great Dr. Chris Bounds would say, our measure of success in ministry will not be based on the fruitfulness of our ministry, but by our own faithfulness. Learning principles should be important to us and should be an important and we should take as much as we can from experience; we need to ultimately draw everything back to God and what He wants us to take from it.

If we are always, only learning by others mistakes, then we are not doing enough ourselves. We should be out there doing and learning along the way, making mistakes and implementing what we learn from those mistakes and keep being faithful to what we are being called to. Ultimately, if we are doing what we should, our mistakes aren’t going to matter in grand scheme of things, as long as we are looking to God and pursuing His goals for our lives and those He wants to touch through us.