Do you desire for your leadership to be useful? (160-3)
Most leaders have a desire for their leadership to be useful. Read Jeremiah 13:1-11.
In his note on leadership in The Maxwell Leadership Bible, John Maxwell talks about An Analogy for Leaders Who Want to Be Useful:
God instructed Jeremiah to wear a linen sash for a while, them bury it. What happened? The once useful sash became useless.
Through this sash, God provides a teaching analogy for His people. The ruined piece of clothing represented the people of Israel who once served and worshiped God, but then became useless through their disobedience. Leaders have a special reason to pay close attention to this object lesson. Consider the parallels between leaders and the linen sash:
| Remain useful when : | Become useless when: |
| They are stretched. We must be stretched and changed | They are soiled. /we cannot live with sin and apathy. |
| They are secure. We must draw our identity from God. | They are separated. We cannot live as mavericks. |
| They are solid. We must possess stable values. | They are shrunk. We aren’t useful when we think small. |
Tags: Apathy, Disobedience, Leaders who become useless, Mavericks, Object Lesson, Teaching anology,
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