Happy Friday, Friends!
I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day as a glorious new day begins to dawn in my Sweet Home Alabama! This day is going to be a great one – I believe and declare this to be true!
Last week’s Happy Friday was about ownership and stewardship – who owns our time, talent, and treasure, and what our responsibilities are with those. While most of us like privileges, we are not so fond of responsibility and accountability. The way I explained it to my Tender Warriors when they were younger was: “Most want the privilege of being a man and the responsibility and accountability of a little boy.” Our world is full of people, and the resulting outcomes of people who live life this way.
This morning, I want to share excerpts from What God Does When Men Lead by Bill Peel again. This is the continuation of the excerpts I shared last week. They are in Chapter 2, Everyday Leaders.
2. The principle of responsibility.
“We are given authority and are held responsible as God’s stewards for what happens on earth, to the physical world and the people and creatures that dwell here.”
“Whether or not we like it, we are responsible for what God has given.”
“God owns everything; we’re responsible for how we treat it and what we do with it.”
“Owners have rights; stewards have responsibilities.”
“As His stewards, we are to manage His holdings well and according to His desires and purposes.”
“A lot of men tell me they’ve never considered that they are responsible before God as leaders for the way they deal with others. But they are, and when it comes to people, God is very clear. They belong to Him, not the leader, and they must be led according to His purposes.”
“As Peter reminds us, we are each responsible to use our gifts according to God’s will.”
“…one of our most important responsibilities is to empower the people under our authority to discover, develop, and use the abilities God has given them.”
3. The principle of accountability.
“As we’ve learned, when a leader is given responsibility, he is accountable to the one who gave it.”
“Each of us is a steward of everything we have been given, including our time, money, abilities, information, wisdom, relationships, and authority. And we will all give account to the rightful Owner as to how well we managed the things He has entrusted to us.”
“For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’ So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.” – Romans 14: 10 – 12
“When we stand before God at His judgment seat, He won’t be interested in how difficult our wives were to love, how uncooperative our children were to parent, how difficult our boss or employees were to deal with, how obstinate the people were at church, or how corrupt a culture we had to endure. We’ll give account for what we did with what He gave us.”
Great stuff! Challenging and inspiring! My goal this morning was simply to make sure we all know; it is up to each one of us as to what we will now do with this information.
Please feel free to contact me at any time if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always help you any way I can. You can reach me at kevin@whatwillyourinfluencebe.com.
Have a great day, a wonderful week, please cherish your precious family, please be kind, and stay well!
Kev
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