Be A Servant And Humble Yourself4 (Lessons For Spiritual Leaders) [Matt 23:1-12] / Anne's Column of Faith

 

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Be A Servant And

Humble Yourself4

/ Lessons For Spiritual

 Leaders 

 [Matt 23:1-12]

 

/Anne's Column of Faith

 

/ By Pastor Priscilla

 

Jesus rebuked

teachers of the law

and Pharisees because

they were hypocrites.

 

 

And he taught his disciples

not to do what they did,

for teachers of the law

and Pharisees didn't  practice

what they had preached.

 

 

And also Jesus taught

his disciples to be servants

and humble themselves

in order to be faithful

 disciples and true teachers.

 

 

It is the hypocrisies of

some leaders that

 I must not imitate.

 

 

As a leader, when I

don't do to others what

I would have them

do to me, I'm a

hypocrite, too.

 

 

Without any effort at all,

asking for the reward

is the appearance of

an unfair leader

and teacher.

 

 

Whoever humbles

himself will be exalted,

and whoever wants to be

first must be a servant of all.

 

 

Therefore , in order to be

a true leader recognized

by the Lord, above all,

 

 

I must not  be caught

by my own desires

and forget the faithful

 and true leadership.

 

 

I must keep in mind that

my eyes are only on the

Lord, and I have to give up

such hypocritical attitud

e to be His disciple.

 

 

I should be a lamp lighting 

the children of darkness

as a sacrificial leader.

 

 

When I become a lamp

that burns and gives light

for the good news

of the kingdom,

 

 

I can praise God

by sacrificing me to Him

 as a burnt offering.

 

 

There is one Christ Jesus,

who is a true Rabbi , a leader, 

the greatest, and the

Most High!

 

 

Therefore, today the Lord

tells me that my eyes

are on Him and I must

advance with Him.

 

 

The Lord said,

"I am the vine; You

are the branches."

 

 

As a branch of the vine,

in fact, even at this moment

 

 

when I receive the word

of the Lord, as one of the

leaders before the Lord,

 

 

I am so ashamed that

I would rather cover my eyes.

 

 

 

 My inner being really

loves the Lord

 

 

and wants to live by His will,

but I often go against His will.

 

 

Lord, please help me out!

At this time today,

the Lord comes

and speaks to me!

 

 

"When you are weak,

then you are strong."

 

 

Sometimes I give a formal

and ritual prayer to the Lord.

 

 

And also there's a time to 

rationalize myself in doing wrong

and keep on babbling when I pray.

 

 

And these hypocrisies make feel

ashamed and ashamed.

 

 

Sometimes I also become

spiritually depressed.

 

 

But, how many times

have I pretended to be

filled with the Holy Spirit

in front of others!

 

 

In fact, before I know it, 

it seems that such  hypocrisies

permeated my soul

and subconscious.

 

 

My appearance from

my sinful nature makes

 me ashamed of myself.

 

 

However, the Lord's

compassion and love,

which accept

 

 

and love my reality

with so much lack,

are stronger than death. 

 

 

I'm sobbing with

His love today,

 

 

and He has sacrificed

Himself to pay for my sins.

 

 

So I make sure that

I must follow Him.

 

 

'Let us, then, go to him

outside the camp,

bearing the disgrace

he bore.' (Heb 13:13)

 

 

If so, what should

I do to win  the true

appearance of a leader?

 

 

1) As a leader, when

I lead a life of faith,

I  need to check my

attitude honestly

and thoroughly.

 

 

2) I have to check

if there's a hypocrisy

in my life of faith.

 

 

Don't I pretend to be holy?

or Don't I show off what I do?

If I do, I must ask the Lord

to  change me.

 

 

Therefore, I have to watch

myself not to feel arrogant

spiritually in my life of faith.

 

 

3) I must continually

ask the Lord to guide me

in order to be a desirable leader

who is a humble servant. 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

Lord! Guide me into

faithful leadership

 

 

and lead me to follow you

without any hypocrisies

and with pure heart.

 

 

Amen

 

 

1992/05/13

 

/ By Priscilla

 

___________________

 

 Anne's Review

 

/ By Priscilla

 

In fact, at the very

moment when we feel

proud of being closest

to the Lord,

 

 

we can get lazy in spirit

and the spiritual arrogance

of faith can come to us 

before we know it. 

 

 

In other words,

when we think we've

reached the top as a leader,

we become full of

arrogance.

 

 

Like this, the spiritual

arrogance is easy to come

into our souls.

 

 

 

So we have to watch

ourselves not to feel

arrogant spiritually 

in our lives of faith.

 

 

 

 2007/12/05

 

 / By Priscilla